Top Gun: Maverick‘s climactic air assault sequence has been put under the microscope by a retired Top Train instructor, who looks at the film’s depiction of G-forces. Served as a sequel to Tony Scott’s Top Gun From 1986, director Joseph Kosinski’s 2022 film sees Tom Cruise return as Pete “Maverick” Mitchell to train a new batch of recruits for a dangerous mission. Although there are various impressive aerial sequences throughout the movie, the Top Gun: Maverick The ending stands out as a notable highlight as Maverick and his team embark on a dangerous bombing run into enemy territory.
In a recent video for InsideRetired Top Gun Instructor Dave Berke Reitz Top Gun: Mavericks final mission, specifically look at how accurate the movie is when it comes to G-forces.
While Berke takes issue with things like the pilot’s decision to fly under a bridge instead of over it and the fact that flares won’t jam an incoming radar-guided missile (flares only work against heat-seeking missiles), he’s all praise. When it comes to the G-force depictions. Check out selected comments from Burke’s analysis below and his score for the climate mission as a whole:
“The G-force shield in that is fantastic. You see their faces get pulled down, you see their eyes get droopy. You see some of them look like they’re about to pass out. These are all real things that happen, All things that pilots have to fight against. When you draw a lot of GS the blood starts to flow from your head and starts to pull down in your extremities. Now, as you know, if you don’t have any blood in your head, You lose those Consciousness.
“Before you have G-LOC [G-force induced loss of consciousness]You have something called grayout, which means you are still conscious, but all your color vision starts to fade away and things turn gray. And sometimes you see the sides of your peripheral vision close in. […]
“I would give this scene a 7 [out of 10] for realism.”
Why Top Gun: Maverick’s aerial sequences look so real
Tom Cruise and Joseph Kosinski put a big focus on doing things practically
While the original Top Gun Featuring some impressive moments of aerial action, the sequel arguably blows the first film out of the water in this regard. The main members of the Top Gun: Maverick Cast, including Miles Teller, Monica Barbaro, Glen Powell and Lewis Pullman, among others, participated in what they dubbed “Tom Cruise Boot Camp“, which prepared them for experiencing high G-forces. Cruise is already an experienced pilot, and he and Kosinski obviously wanted to capture the experience of being in the cockpit for Top Gun: Maverick.
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to do this, Actors are up in real fighter jets with experienced pilots and many cameras in the cockpit. Eddie Hamilton revealed in January 2023 that over 800 hours of footage had been captured for Top Gun: Maverick. The real pilots who accompanied the actors and actually flew the fighter jets certainly carried out the actors, and the G-force that you see affecting the stars’ faces is all true. Although there is certainly a lot of CGI in it Top Gun: MaverickThe focus on practical action and doing things for real ultimately makes the flying sequences much more engaging.
The power of the aerial sequences is part of what the Top Gun: Maverick Reviews have been glowing from critics and audiences alike. The film has a 96% critics score and 99% audience score On Rotten tomatoesAnd the sequel finally grossed $1.496 billion at the box office. Although not all Top Gun: Maverick Being accurate to the real-life fighter pilot experience, the film evidently gets G-forces very right.
Source: Inside