‘Mayday’ review: A light and easy American-Russian bhai-bhai comedy
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The duo behind the criminally underrated Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves ensure a safe landing for Mayday. Written and directed by Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley, Mayday is an American-Russian bhai-bhai movie starring Ryan Reynolds, Kenneth Branagh and the Tom Cruise hit Top Gun.
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It’s 1987, a year after the release of Top Gun – a pop culture milestone as far as Mayday is concerned. The Cold War between the United States of America and the former Soviet Union is still in place.
US Navy pilot Troy (Reynolds) is a vocal supporter of his country’s foreign policy and military might. Russia is the Bad Guy, with no democracy and a submissive populace, Troy firmly believes. Until he crash-lands in Russia during an intelligence-gathering mission and is rescued by former KGB operative Nikolai (Branagh).
Having watched Top Gun over a hundred times on a bootleg video cassette, Nikolai is thrilled to be in Troy’s company. When Troy exhorts Nikolai to “Act like an American!” and help him flee the nasty KGB agent Alexander (Marcin Dorocinski), Nikolai reveals a skillset that shocks and awes Troy.
Mayday is out on Apple TV, where its plea against...