Tom Cruise's thrilling blockbuster loved by fans to free to watch on streaming

The movie was nominated for six Oscars successful 2023

Tom Cruise's 'wildly entertaining' blockbuster with 96% Rotten Tomatoes people volition beryllium escaped to ticker connected TV and streaming this weekend. Top Gun: Maverick is the sequel to the beloved 1980s flick Top Gun which starred Tom Cruise arsenic Pete “Maverick” Mitchell.

36 years aft the archetypal film, the 2022 sequel sees Maverick arsenic 1 of the Navy’s apical aviators and trial pilots who has avoided subject advancements that would person grounded him.

Maverick helps bid a clump of caller Top Gun graduates for a specialised ngo the likes of which nary surviving aviator has ever seen.

Here helium encounters Lt. Bradley Bradshaw (Miles Teller), the lad of Maverick’s precocious person and Radar Intercept Officer Lt. Nick Bradshaw, aka “Goose”.

Now dealing with his past and uncertain aboriginal successful the military, Maverick is drawn into a confrontation with his ain deepest fears, culminating successful a ngo that demands the eventual sacrifice from those who volition beryllium chosen to alert it.

The film's formed besides includes A Beautiful Mind histrion Jennifer Connelly arsenic Penelope "Penny" Benjamin, Twisters prima LT Jake "Hangman" Seresin, Mad Men prima Jon Hamm arsenic Vice Admiral Beau "Cyclone" Simpson and Val Kilmer returning arsenic Admiral Tom "Iceman" Kazansky.

Top Gun: Maverick volition beryllium broadcast connected Channel 4 astatine 8.30pm connected Saturday (February 1) and volition tally for 2 hours and 35 minutes until 11.05pm. The movie volition beryllium disposable for streaming soon aft connected its connected request service.

Directed by Joseph Kosinski, the movie grossed $1.496 cardinal worldwide, making it the second-highest-grossing movie of 2022 and the highest-grossing of Tom Cruise's career.

Top Gun: Maverick is mostly deemed to beryllium a superior movie to the archetypal and is 1 of the uncommon sequels that is wide agreed to beryllium amended than the original.

The movie was nominated for six Oscars successful 2023, including Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Visual Effects. The movie won the Oscar for Best Sound.

Top Gun: Maverick presently has a 96% Tomatometer standing connected Rotten Tomatoes, with an awesome assemblage people of 99%.

Critics said Top Gun: Maverick "pulls disconnected a feat adjacent trickier than a 4G inverted dive, delivering a long-belated sequel that surpasses its predecessor successful wildly entertaining style".

One professional shared: "A summertime blockbuster of the aged school, with rust-bucket F-14s duking it retired with young pups successful F-18s, each changeable connected celluloid alternatively than sketched successful by computers, astatine the behest of a prima who refuses to quit."

Another mini-review reads: "Top Gun: Maverick is astir unprecedented successful its class, a nostalgia sequel that doesn’t consciousness similar a inexpensive IP currency grab.

"Instead, it brings Maverick’s communicative afloat ellipse successful a satisfying mode that adds extent and magnitude to its predecessor, but inactive tells a communicative that’s each its own."