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Disclosure Day
How is Speilberg's newest movie?
Review: What would you do if you found out if the government was hiding the fact that extraterrestrial visitors had come to earth and the government was hiding it? Would you want this information to stay in the shadows, or would you work on telling the world about this information?
Being called “Disclosure Day”, the movie’s sole through line and purpose is to have the characters finally disclose the classified videos and photo evidence of aliens on earth, but the main issue this movie has is that is I don’t think that’s the most interesting story that should have come from this idea. Instead of having the movie be about getting classified information to a news station to get disseminated out to the world (instead of social media), the more interesting story is now that aliens have been disclosed, how does that impact humanity? How does that impact governments? How would this impact currently held religious beliefs? How would individuals, countries, cultures, and societies change? Are the aliens here to help, or are they here to destroy? These questions pose more interesting, engaging, and plot-hole free stories than the long chase sequence of a movie we ended up getting.
The film also had so many moments that made you question who, what, when, where, and why, with the answer to each question being “I don’t know.” These questions all circulated the decisions and the backstory of the movie’s main characters Margaret (played by Emily Blunt) and Daniel (played by Josh O’Conner). Instead of wanting to use these characters to help make the story interesting or to answer any of the questions, they ended up only being vessels of the story. This, on top of all of the underwhelming story, made the movie tricky and difficult to engage with.
While I did have many issues with the film, all of the production, cinematography, and acting behind the movie was just fantastic. Steven Spielberg knows how to make a movie that looks beautiful, is shot beautifully, and is acted with perfection. Having all of the technical aspects of the movie being so well done made the underwhelming story even more frustrating, especially at the end of the movie. You spend 2 hours on this massive chase, only for the movie to end in the most anticlimactic way possible, with no additional revelations made, and with no emotional or satisfying ending.
Overall, this movie is a masterclass in quality but not how to make a movie with an interesting story. If you’re a huge Spielberg fan I’d give it a chance, but you might enjoy the movie as much as I did.
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Rating: 2.5/5
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