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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nAll-time-great director Steven Spielberg is back with a film built around one of his most popular subjects: aliens. From the man that brought us \u201cClose Encounters of the Third Kind\u201d and \u201cE.T. the Extra-Terrestrial\u201d comes \u201cDisclosure Day,\u201d a film about a small group of people deciding that it is time to let the rest of humanity know that they are not alone in the universe. After deeply personal project \u201cThe Fabelmans,\u201d this is Spielberg\u2019s return to blockbuster filmmaking. And I do see this movie as a blockbuster, just not much of one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The film essentially follows six characters: hacker Daniel Kellner (Josh O\u2019Connor) and his girlfriend Jane (Eve Hewson), TV newswoman Margaret Fairchild (Emily Blunt) and her boyfriend Jackson (Wyatt Russell), organizer of key players Hugo (Colman Domingo), and shady coverup leader Scanlon (Colin Firth). Kellner has flash drives with evidence of alien activity on Earth dating back decades. Margaret suddenly has powers that are not of this world. Hugo has a full-sized replica of Margaret\u2019s childhood home for some reason. Scanlon has alien tech that he\u2019s ironically using against the aliens and their allies. Let the race to expose or bury the truth begin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Following a botched drop to get back a kidnapped Jane from Scanlon, Kellner goes on the run with sketchy help from Hugo in a storyline reminiscent of recent Oscar winner \u201cOne Battle After Another.\u201d Jane is shocked to learn that her boyfriend knows the truth about aliens, and he\u2019s shocked to learn that she once aspired to be a nun. At first, she\u2019s a liability to Kellner because she\u2019s blissfully ignorant, then she\u2019s a liability because she doesn\u2019t agree with his cause, then she\u2019s a liability because Scanlon gets to her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kellner knows the score with the aliens, but Margaret doesn\u2019t. She doesn\u2019t know why she suddenly speaks every language or knows the personal life of everyone she sees or can\u2019t help but speak an alien tongue on air. All she knows is that some bad people are after her because of it, and the skeptical Jackson is reluctantly along for the ride. Could it have something to do with repressed childhood memories about unconvincing CGI forest animals? Kellner and Margaret meet up to have an action scene with a speeding train. We know from \u201cThe Fabelmans\u201d that Spielberg loves speeding trains almost as much as he loves crashing them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For a movie called \u201cDisclosure Day,\u201d there\u2019s a lot of suspense around whether or not the truth will be disclosed. Spoiler Alert: it will be, so don\u2019t worry about it. If you want to worry about something, worry about the individual characters making it to the end alive, which isn\u2019t a lock. Though these characters are so dull that I couldn\u2019t get too invested in their survival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Spielberg usually makes good decisions about the way this film looks and sounds (Yes, frequent collaborator John Williams is doing the score), but I don\u2019t agree with how he has the story unfold. Instead of exploring the rich potential for how humanity will respond to this mindblowing news about aliens, he focuses on the buildup to the news, which isn\u2019t that interesting. There\u2019s a brief mention of how people will react if their deeply-held religious beliefs are shaken, but it\u2019s brushed aside in favor of chase antics. I would have put the disclosure at the beginning of this film and given the bulk of the runtime to the fallout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Grade: C<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDisclosure Day\u201d is rated PG-13 for action\/violence, some bloody images and strong language. Its running time is 145 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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