Maverick (1994)
Directed by Richard Donner
Bret Maverick is a gambler who would rather con someone than fight them, and needs an additional $3k in order to enter a winner-takes-all poker game beginning in a few days. He joins forces with a woman with a marvelous Southern accent, and the two try and enter the game.
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It feels, for better or worse, like a film he could have made at almost any point in the last 30 years: As Cruise’s character here puts his prodigious aviation skills to wildly irresponsible use, it’s tempting to imagine Liman’s film as an oblique spiritual follow-up to the adventures of flashy Navy pilot Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, beating tardy forthcoming sequel “Top Gun: Maverick” to the punch.
Three decades after playing swaggering Navy ace “Maverick” Mitchell in Top Gun, the actor once chosen as People magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive (1995) is back, climbing into the danger zone in this comedy-drama based on the real life of a former TWA pilot who became involved with a South American drug cartel in the 1980s.
Playing a pilot recruited by the CIA to fly covert missions under specious motives, his Barry Seal is as far from Ethan Hunt or Jerry Maguire or Lt. Pete “Maverick” Mitchell as any role can get.
We've enjoyed glimpses of Mel Gibson's comic potential before (the "Lethal Weapon" movies, "Maverick"), but, remarkably, his new film, "What Women Want," is the first time he has tried on a romantic comedy for size.
Acclaimed as an action star in the Lethal Weapon and Mad Max anthologies, a historical widescreen fancier earlier this year with The Patriot and his 1995 award-winning Braveheart, Mel Gibson�s roguish advertising executive in What Women Want takes a sidestep, showcasing his hitherto second-tier romantic comedy talents that borrow a whimsical wink from Maverick and a lateral pass from the head strong arrogance and lunacy of Detective Sergeant Martin Riggs.