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Loved it, yes it's full of clichés, Maverick doing Maverick stuff, the ubiquitous love interest, the estranged relationship etc etc you probably know to expect it and yet get it - don't let it put you off, its sort of comforting in its own peculiar way!

The flying sequences are absolutely superb and make you want to say wow, the movie is pretty perfectly paced, the sound engineers did a fantastic job, everyone looks like they are having great fun filming it and its a great way to spend a couple of hours - what more do you want.

If anybody ever writes a book called "how to make a movie sequel", this will be chapter 1 - well done.

I went in to this knowing nothing at all about it and how pleasantly surprised I was.

Let me start by congratulating the casting department, whoever picked those 4 leading girls did a great job, the acting is fantastic and they all have a bright future in Hollywood.

The story clicks long quickly, there's never a dull moment and plenty of WFT is happening here moment's that made me laugh out loud, great cinematography, decent effects and I don't really have much to fault it on.

Binged it in one sitting and looking forward to the second series.

In all honesty, I didn't expect much from this movie, and that's exactly what I got.

The screen writing is rubbish with a slew of cringeworthy one-liners and a story that stretched credibility to the extreme, the CGI is so bad it looks like an episode of Thunderbirds at times and the acting is nothing to write home about either.

The only saving grace is that it clocks in at just over an hour and a half - you will feel every single minute though, still it could have been a two hour sitting and for that I'm grateful.