Tom Cruise's 'Top Gun: Maverick' Is a Major Streaming Success on Paramount+

Tom Cruise's $1.4 billion action sequel Top Gun: Maverick remains a streaming hit on Paramount+, still popular four years after its release. Cruise is often called Hollywood's last true movie star, and the film's continued audience interest underscores that standing.

Cruise returned with the late Val Kilmer for the 2022 legacy sequel directed by Joseph Kosinski. The cast also included Miles Teller, Glen Powell, Jennifer Connelly, Monica Barbaro, Jon Hamm, Lewis Pullman and Jay Ellis, with Maverick back at the Top Gun Academy as an instructor leading recruits on a near‑suicidal bombing run.

Critics and viewers embraced the movie: it holds a 96% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a 99% user score from over 50,000 reviews, and Julian Roman wrote that "Tom Cruise soars in a spectacular sequel." On Paramount+ the film is currently the platform's fourth most popular title and has been in its Top 10 for 574 days.

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