'Disclosure Day' is (hopefully the final iteration) of "That movie" that Spielberg has been making off and on for nearly 50 years. It is the spiritual successor of 1977's 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' and a highly condensed version of 'Taken', a generation spanning mini series about alien abduction produced by Spielberg that came out in 2002. The film principly follows two likable protagonists, an on the run former government tech expert played by (newish commer) Josh O'Connor, and a Kansas City weather lady played by Emily Blunt. These two are central players in a plot by renagade government agents, and extraterrestrials, to reveal the presence of aliens on Earth going back at least 79 years, which has been covered up by the United States government, quasi governmental agencies and even....
It's a tight, efficient movie, with some good set pieces, good mood pieces, and some time spent contemplating the implications of extraterrestrial existence on organized religion and other matters. Our current "post-truth zeitgeist" is a theme running under the film, but not as explicitly as the post 9/11 imagery in Spielberg's 2005 remake of 'The War of The Worlds'.
The movie has it weaker/shakeir bits, not everything lands and it's somewhat uneven, but it's truely Spielbergian moments and flirting with wonder made it an enjoyable watch and kept me with it throughout. I do wonder however, how well it will fair on a rewatch. The movie felt like it came out about a decade too late, if this had been released close to as is during the Obama years, I think it would have been widley embraced. The movie is getting alot of crap on YouTube, but I'd still recommend it. This is the weakest of the directors four films about aliens, but even a meh Spielberg movie is better then most theatrical releases of today. ***
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