Never Back Down vs Top Gun: Maverick

Top Gun: Maverick has the higher audience score (8.2/10 against 6.8/10 for Never Back Down). Never Back Down is the shorter watch at 1h 55m compared with 2h 11m. Never Back Down is the older of the two (2008 against 2022). Both are action, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Never Back Down posterNever Back Down2008 VS Top Gun: Maverick posterTop Gun: Maverick2022
Never Back DownTop Gun: Maverick
Audience score★ 6.8/10★ 8.2/10
Year20082022
Length1h 55m2h 11m
GenresAction, DramaAction, Drama
Country––
DirectorJeff WadlowJoseph Kosinski
Main castNeil Brown Jr., Evan Peters, Djimon Hounsou, Leslie Hope, Cam GigandetJon Hamm, Danny Ramirez, Jennifer Connelly, Charles Parnell, Jay Ellis

Synopsis

Never Back Down

Jake, full of anger after his father's death, is just starting to find a place for himself at his new Orlando high school - until Ryan, head of an underground MMA fight club, picks Jake out as a prime opponent. After being trounced by Ryan in front of the entire school, Jake begins training under the firm, moral guidance of a MMA master, where he learns how to fight... and how to avoid a fight. But it becomes obvious that a rematch will be…

Top Gun: Maverick

After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell finds himself training a detachment of TOP GUN graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen.

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