It's gotten high scores on all the ideologically poisoned "review" sites and scores ultra high among fans.
Just came back from it just felt like a good, old school action flick with a Hero's journey type of story. It's great, and it does a proper "sendoff" with a character (Rooster) being a strong link between the previous movie and this movie.
This is one of those "turn your brain off and enjoy the ride" sorta deals. It just tries to be a good movie, and it's damn good. Lots of FUCK YEAH AMERICA tones to it as well.
I still want to know who the "enemy" they were fighting are though. Considering the wintery location it must be a reference to Russia, with the Su-57's kinda making an appearance as their opposition.
Regardless it's a great movie, even leftist publications are praising it. Go watch it if you have time.
They had a super STRONK hispanic WAMEN co-star as the next generation of pilots.
The only thing is, they didn't bring attention to it. I actually know an army girl who's like her, so it was somewhat believable. These recruits are flying planes, they aren't lugging heavy gear down hostile terrain.
The new recruits was borderline feeling like a cringe diversity hire cast at FIRST, but considering the US military actually has a fiar number of blacks and Hispanics in it, it was actually fairly believable for them to have the cast. The Asian dude recruit was fucking call signed as "Yale" and has a fucking last name of Lee lmao.