Top Gun: Maverick

4K Ultra HD

Blu Ray

  • Score
    95
    from 7 reviewers
  • Top Gun: Maverick is a rare, heart-filled sequel with stunning Ultra HD Blu-ray quality; the ultimate go-to demo disc and cinematic marvel.

    Top Gun: Maverick
    2022
    130 min
    PG-13
    True 4K
    HDR10
    Dolby Vision
    Dolby Atmos
  • Video
    98
  • Top Gun: Maverick features a stunning 2160p/Dolby Vision UHD presentation with rich colors, vibrant whites, gradational gray tones, and deep blacks. Paramount's 4K release maximizes Dolby Vision potential, creating a breathtaking, reference-quality visual experience for large displays.

  • Audio
    98
  • Maverick's Atmos mix delivers technical excellence in 2022's top release, with a wide soundstage, precise motion, crystal clear dialogue, and immersive audio objects. Elevated height channels and powerful bass captivate viewers, enhancing both emotional drama and thrilling cinematic experiences.

  • Extra
    82
  • Top Gun: Maverick's UK 4K release is impressive, featuring intense cast training, exclusive UHD featurettes, and music videos. The film pushes boundaries, with a Masterclass by Tom Cruise and groundbreaking filming techniques.

  • Movie
    96
  • In Top Gun: Maverick, Cruise's return reignites rivalries with Goose's son, Bradshaw. 2022's sequel balances nostalgia, dramatic saga, and impressive cinematography, while tackling criticisms. The action-packed film showcases the possible impossible mission in a visually engaging experience.

    True 4K
    HDR10
    Dolby Vision
    Dolby Atmos

    Director: Joseph Kosinski

    Actors: Tom Cruise, Jennifer Connelly, Miles Teller

    Plot: After thirty years, Maverick is still pushing the envelope as a top naval aviator, but must confront ghosts of his past when he leads TOP GUN's elite graduates on a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice from those chosen to ...

    Disc Release Date: 1 November 2022

    all scores

    • Video
      100
    • ... utterly reference

    • Audio
      100
    • ... reference Atmos

    • Extra
      70
    • ... Maverick's UK 4K release nearly defies criticism

    • Movie
      100
    • ... Cruise's Maverick proving that the impossible is very much possible

    • Total
      100
    • This is surely going to be THE go-to demo disc for years to come

    Blu-ray.com review by Martin Liebman
    • Video
      100
    • .Top Gun: Maverick soars onto the UHD format with a stellar 2160p/Dolby Vision UHD presentation (with shifting aspect ratios). The picture is particularly bold and sharp, more so than the companion Blu-ray,...

    • Audio
      100
    • The Atmos track is likewise perfect. That's unsurprising for a film that is the biggest release of 2022, which is also a big budget spectacle with countless opportunities for sonic excellence. It's the...

    • Extra
      80
    • Top Gun: Maverick's UHD release includes five featurettes, one of which is exclusive to UHD, and all which are great. It also includes two music videos. The film screams for more, but what is here is great....

    • Movie
      100
    • Top Gun seemed prime for some sort of sequel the minute it launched in theaters in May 1986. Fortunately, that sequel never materialized until 2022 (earlier Covid delays notwithstanding) with Top Gun:...

    • Total
      90
    • Top Gun: Maverick is really something else. In a world of cookie-cutter, generic, bland cinema, this is what movie making is all about: it's a sequel, yes, but it's a sequel with heart, determination,...

    The Digital Bits review by Bill Hunt
    • Video
      100
    • Paramount’s 4K release preserves that variable ratio, ensuring the best possible picture for those with large displays....

    • Audio
      100
    • The soundstage is big, wide, and highly atmospheric, with crystal clear dialogue, smooth and active panning, effortless lift in the height channels during dogfight sequences, and firmly muscular bass....

    • Extra
      70
    • Rounding out the disc-based extras are music videos for a pair of tracks, one that accompanies the “dogfight football” sequence and the other than closes the film....

    • Movie
      95
    • Time and again, reviewers have fallen over themselves to ensure that you know they don’t approve of Scientology, Tom Cruise’s personal choices, American imperialism, or the notion of Hollywood filmmaking...

    • Total
      91
    • When all is said and done, Top Gun: Maverick remains everything you’d want from a sequel to Tony Scott’s original film, a brava blockbuster experience that’s trickier than a 4G inverted dive, has spawned...

    • Video
      100
    • Generous in Dolby Vision potential too, the brilliant contrast uses the glistening sun to its fullest potential, ricocheting from visors, windows, and sleek jet metals....

    • Audio
      100
    • Likewise, motion accurately bounces between speakers, and height channels take on more notable work here by default than any other reference disc....

    • Extra
      60
    • ...

    • Movie
      100
    • Yet with that painter’s brush and cooperation with the US Navy, the script teeters between honoring its financial obligations, dressing the project in nostalgia, and continuing a dramatic saga....

    • Total
      90
    • ...

    High-Def Digest review by M. Enois Duarte
    • Video
      100
    • Flying at 10Gs, the unexpected sequel hits its target on Ultra HD with stunning results, striking screens with a breathtaking, reference-quality HEVC H.265 encode that amazingly improves on its Blu-ray...

    • Audio
      100
    • Maverick soars into home theaters with a stupendously awesome, demo-worthy Dolby Atmos soundtrack that absorbs viewers with the emotional drama of the characters as effectively as it does throwing them...

    • Extra
      40
    • For this UHD edition, Paramount grounds the film with the same selection of bonus material but throws in one exclusive featurette for 4K collectors. EXCLUSIVE Masterclass with Tom Cruise (HD, 49 min),...

    • Movie
      100
    • The most impressive and praiseworthy accomplishment in Top Gun: Maverick is director Joseph Kosinski proving to moviegoers why they needed a sequel to Tony Scott's 1986 action drama. The film that skyrocketed...

    • Total
      100
    • From director Joseph Kosinski, Top Gun: Maverick is an unexpected marvel and spectacular accomplishment, as the filmmakers not only justify the need for a sequel to Tony Scott's 1986 action drama but also...

    AVSForum review by Ralph Potts
    • Video
      100
    • Primary and secondary colors are beautifully rich, while whites appear gradational and vibrant. When brought together, the combination of rich color, sepia, and gradational gray tones literally pop off...

    • Audio
      100
    • The immersive mix compliments the already top-notch soundtrack and enhances the experience of watching the film. The use of audio objects placed above and at ear level is a mix of atmospherics, discrete...

    • Extra
      80
    • Cleared For Take Off—Witness the most intense film training program as the cast prepare themselves for filming while pulling multiple G's in a fighter plane.Breaking New Ground – Filming Top Gun: Maverick—Prepare...

    • Movie
      100
    • Bradshaw (Miles Teller), the son of his former wingman, "Goose". Bitter rivalries ignite as the pilots prepare for a specialized mission, which will require the ultimate sacrifice from those chosen to...

    • Total
      95
    • It is among those rarest of sequels that rivals its predecessor. It arrives on Ultra HD Blu-ray in this Ultra HD Blu-ray/Digital release from Paramount Home Entertainment featuring audio/video quality...

    Why So Blu? review by Brandon Peters
    • Video
      100
    • Black Levels: Blacks are deep and hit natural levels to top out a masterful work here that’s on display from the opening scene of the film....

    • Audio
      100
    • The subwoofer captures all the wooshing going on as well as engines, bass and drum in the music, crashes and much more....

    • Extra
      70
    • ”Breaking New Ground: Filming Top Gun: Maverick (HD, 7:56) – “Once I was satisfied with what the story was, it was time to figure out how to take it to the next level”....

    • Movie
      80
    • Sure, the basis of the mission is very similar to Star Wars Death Star run, but the fact that you can clearly understand that and know the situation from conversation as well as visually has its heads...

    • Total
      80
    • Top Gun: Maverick provided the ultimate summer movie and did the impossible by soaring past its predecessor and becoming the biggest movie on the planet this year....