Why doesn’t the enemy reveal in Top Gun: Maverick?

The truth is that it was not difficult for director Joseph Kosinski to overcome Top Shooter: Maverick (2022) to Tom Cruise’s first Pete Mitchell feature film directed by the late Tony Scott (1986). By avoiding such childishness, he already wins a lot. However, how could it be otherwise, he retains the rest of his narrative ingredients and his dramatic spirit; D reiterates its decision not to speak directly about the territorial affiliation of the enemy the one they are facing.

As Dhruv Sharma explains in ScreenRant“several details in the aircraft markings and geographic locations of this film show that the original villain from the best weapon it’s a loose combination of the Soviet Union, China and North Korea.” Let’s not forget that the Berlin Wall has not yet fallen, which means that the film was released in the problematic context of the Cold War. And it is curious to realize that Iosif Kosinsky arrived during the military aggression from Russia.

However, while we can’t know for sure, “its desert background locations and fifth generation enemy fighters suggest that the Maverick’s enemy in the sequel the best weapon possibly comes from China, Russia or Iran“. Snow-capped mountain peaks fit into any landscape of these three countries; but the intention to “become a nuclear superpower” points to the Iranians, and the Russian Su-57 fighter to the other two, I quite agree.

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