We are never told the name of the country that Maverick and Co are being sent to. However, the mention of an enriched unranium plant is a dead give away. It's clearly Iran, who are still regarded by a threat to the region by both Israel and Saudi Arabia. The film makers decided it best not to name a specific country.
shareThe real dead giveaway isn't the nuclear enrichment plant... But the fact that there is only one country in the world with flyable tomcats remaining.
There is also only one country besides the U.S. that has fifth generation fighters and it isn't Iran. Also, the one country with operational fifth gen fighters also has a lot of fucking snow and a shit ton of SAMs. Oh, and they can also enrich uranium.
Additionally, the fifth gen fighters in the movie look just like the Russian Su-57
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It says they are Su-57s right in the film, great detective work there.
I said that elsewhere, so it baffles me why people are trying to say that a snow covered country with Sukhoi 57s is Iran.
Because ONLY IRAN has Tomcats.
Because ONLY IRAN has a desire to still try to acquire nuclear enrichment for weapons (Russia already has it)
And While Russia has the Felon, it's not beyond reasoning that in the near future that Iran may get some from Russia.
And Iran does have green woods and snow capped mountains. it isn't all desert.
First, entirely possible for Russia to acquire Tomcats from some third world country, and the filmmakers needed them to get Maverick and Rooster out of Russia (and for nostalgia's sake). Not everything has to be true to life. Perhaps Russia wanted to create *new* enrichment facilities in defiance of the SALT treaties.
What is an absolute certainty is Iran doesn't have an Su-57s. Also have to keep in mind it is much more politically correct to paint Russia as the villain in a film than just about any other country.
I was about to make a thread about this, but see, im not convinced that making the "enemies" faceless or unnamed was the best choice. Thats an easy way to make the audience identify with the characters and their actions more, not seeing "the enemy" as humans but as just that, an evil enemy.
The whole time i was thinking about those two Clint Eastwood movies (Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima) and how both of them offer different perspectives on the same conflict. And how interesting it was to watch :/
Still, i enjoyed the movie a lot.
The country should be Democratica, and Maverick should anahilate the democrats..Now that would be an instant classic
shareI think its Norway. Enemy of America & Israel. Heavy water, snow, mountains , underdeveloped regions ! Must be.
shareThe 'enemy' is a generic enemy, a composite of US common enemies. It's not any single nation, because the topography and climate are too wild and varied.
This will keep TG2 from becoming dated too quickly, it will retain a timelessness well into the future. Think about Rambo III and how the subject matter became kind of cringe after 911.
Iran? I thought it was Scotland 🏴
shareThe "enemy" is.....
Fictional.
In a fictional movie. Like how Thanos is a fictional villain in a fictional movie.