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I do love any movies to do with alien invasions or aliens. I do think we are not alone and we are approaching the real disclosure days so I was interested to watch this film and see Spielberg back in action especially in this kind of genre. I went down a rabbit hole the other day about what different aliens have already been discovered and are walking amongst us. The good greys , the bad greys, the nordics, the repilians and the insectoids. The greys are the ones that we consider look like the token aliens. But they were losing a 1000 year intergalactic war so they decided to clone themselves but take empathy out and made the bad greys. Needless to say the bad greys came back to bite them on the arse and practically wiped their originators out. Anyway I was intrigued reading all of this especially the bit about the Earth being protected and some of the baddies just found out about Earth so are currently giving weapons to the USA, China and Russia to prepare us for the invasion of the flying ants. This was all very riveting for me to read. It was like reading the script to an Avengers film. I told the wife this story and she looked at me with disgust so I am secretly hoping for an invasion anytime soon to give her that smug look when something from Starship troopers is setting fire to the next door neighbour with a precision laser. Anyway to the film review.
Disclosure Day was not what I expected. I found it very good actually and I was pretty much invested in it the whole way through. The cast were amazing. Bono's daughter, Eve Hewson is an excellent actress. Emily Blunt has is weird good looking to pull off her role. Let's get the actress with the piercy-est eyes. Colin Firth , when he is not doing period dramas is quite a good baddie. And Daniel Kellner who plays Daniel was quite good even though I never really seen him before in things.
The film starts by an IT guy working for an intelligence agency going rogue with the evidence of aliens in his bagpack. He also has a shard type object that I can only describe as being very Splinterlands like. Meanwhile a weather woman in Kansas City sees a bird coming through her window and starts speaking fluent Russian, Korean, can read peoples minds and goes on air speaking the same language as the aliens do. This naturally goes viral. Meanwhile in order to find the IT Guy and the weather girl, Mr Colin Firth sits in his chair and does a bit of remote viewing in a kind of Matrix like way. The government agency wants to do whatever it takes to not disclose this information. There is alot of close calls , shooty shooty bang bang,car chases , hanging off trains, in between the weather girl and the IT guy finally meeting up which was quite entertaining.
Now in most films the actually aliens are never seen. Well not much of. In Signs by Mel Gibson we saw one running past a house and the entire film is based on this. In War of The Worlds we see their machines. We did not see much in Independence Day either bar the punch in the face given by Will Smith to one. But they did show one in this film. At the end obviously.
I was disappointed a bit by the ending although the monologue of the Disclosure was quite detailed and I think it would be very similar to what would happen. But hold on, a living alien gets bought into the news studio and says one word
LISTEN
and then the film ends. It leaves you thinking like it is meant to do. But I wish he would say a few more worlds. Many people were highly disappointed with this film expecting another masterpiece from Spielbergo. It wasn't and the rotten tomato ratings agree with this scoring it mid 60's. Other people reckon its setting the world up for an actual real disclosure. Wouldn't that be tasty. Anyway I give this film a 77 because it's better than a 75% and not the best film I've ever watch but it's a decent watch.
Rating: 77/100
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The ending is a good example of why Disclosure Day still works on an emotional level even when the details are hard to swallow and escape routes are avaible in every corner, its when you start seen people brake down because of the impact this news has on everyone, decades of lies, decades of abuse, it does have some value although it all felt rush. Margaret makes it to the station, Daniel get the stolen files spread across every news network broadcasting from what looks like a small local news channel until they make it New York, thats where things start to spread like wild fire and people all over the world stop to watch proof of alien crashes, prisoners and decades of secrecy, people who had places to be just sit down and watch instead of keep moving on. Then living alien gets brought in front of the cameras and I think this was totally unnecesary to be honest, speaks to Daniel and leaves Margaret to carry the message to everyone else, ending on the word Listen, please tell me we are not getting a sequel because there is no need for it so why ending like this?. I get the ending is simple and direct and fits what the movie has been saying about empathy and communication the whole time, I do like that Spielberg does not turn the aliens into attackers or use the reveal as an excuse for some huge battle, taking the story into a path of peace and evolution becuase humanity is close to destroying itself and these beings just want people to understand each other before it is too late, even when the goverment has been so cruel to them. The problem is the movie expects one broadcast to change the world almost right away, soldiers pause and news networks cooperate because everyone is watching the same screen, come on its rating, and it needed more doubt about how people would react because everyone is just in silence and there are no opinions or oposition flying across the room, some would listen, some would panic, some would deny it outright sayings its Ai but they got some sort of system that even meassures pixels to confirm its real? like wtf. Even after my small rant after half of this post I did not think the whole idea failed, Spielberg still creates real story that make you feel and want more out of it as the drama, action and story unfolds, Blunt gives the movie a strong emotional center its just sad Josh O Connor didnt get the same opportunity as Daniel, and the question of what disclosure would actually change is a nice moment to think about it, what would happen if something like this ever becomes real? Im not talking about Alien devices but that Aliens are real, period. Disclosure Day is good, sometimes really good, but it needed a stronger script to become that blockbuster everyone was expecting, I guess no days been succesful at what ever you do in this age of social media expose you so much that people just cant get or understand or even accept when it was not your best performance and not even your worst to call your work plain stupid.
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