Is Disclosure Day Any Good

[00:00] There are few names as iconic as Stephen

[00:03] Spielberg in the film industry. For the

[00:05] longest time, his name was synonymous

[00:08] with high quality blockbuster cinema.

[00:11] And his newest film just dropped,

[00:14] Disclosure Day, and there was a lot of

[00:16] hype and mystique around it. A lot of

[00:18] people were really excited as like a

[00:20] return to form for Spielberg.

[00:22] And uh I've just seen it. It's like

[00:28] not great. Like it's I don't think it's

[00:31] like a terrible movie, but it's a let

[00:34] down. Like if Spielberg's name wasn't on

[00:37] this, I think the critics's reception to

[00:40] it would have been far more harsh. Cuz

[00:42] right now it's sitting at a pretty

[00:43] respectable um percentage from critics,

[00:47] but it's not a very inspired film, and

[00:50] it's certainly not the kind of film that

[00:53] it presents itself as in its marketing.

[00:55] It's actually a pretty generic one all

[00:58] things considered, which sucks to say

[01:01] because the ingredients in this stew are

[01:04] solid. Aliens, Spielberg,

[01:08] how can you go wrong? They found a way.

[01:11] It's Let's just Let's just get into the

[01:14] spaghetti meatballs here. Obviously,

[01:16] there's going to be spoilers. Here's

[01:18] your spoiler warning. We follow two

[01:20] characters, Daniel and Margaret. Daniel

[01:22] is part of this secret uh offthebooks

[01:26] huge mega corporation that deals with

[01:31] coverups for the aliens and the alien

[01:33] tech that they have and have interacted

[01:37] with. And he decides to go rogue. He

[01:40] grabs all the archives and he wants to

[01:42] release it to the world because he

[01:43] believes humans have a right to that

[01:46] knowledge. Margaret is a weather woman

[01:50] who out of nowhere has an encounter with

[01:53] a cardinal that awakens something inside

[01:55] of her. And then when she goes on air,

[01:58] she starts speaking the brown note and

[02:01] everyone's pooping and [ __ ] and

[02:02] farting all over the world. And it turns

[02:05] out it bestowed upon her special powers.

[02:08] So she can look at people in their eye

[02:11] and she gets to drop in on their life.

[02:14] She sees everything they've ever

[02:16] experienced or ever felt. So, she has a

[02:20] gift. And Daniel also has a gift. He is

[02:24] a math genius, a real math whiz. So, he

[02:28] is able to speak math. It's the

[02:32] universal language. And the two of them

[02:35] go on a big adventure. Margaret feels

[02:38] Daniel out there in the ether and she's

[02:40] like a [ __ ] like UAV online like it's

[02:44] a Call of Duty killstreak constantly

[02:46] tracking him across the across the

[02:49] world. Daniel is on the run from his ex

[02:52] employer who is trying to hunt him down

[02:54] to prevent him from releasing it because

[02:56] they don't want it out there. They

[02:57] believe it's going to cause a panic cuz

[02:58] the world's already on the brink. And

[03:00] Daniel is avoiding the most incompetent

[03:02] agent you'll ever see. Like the men in

[03:05] black here are really dumb. Like three

[03:08] stooges level silly stupid. And they're

[03:11] supposed to be like the most elite

[03:12] agents ever. Like they can basically be

[03:14] anywhere they need to be like that. They

[03:17] [ __ ] teleport there basically. And uh

[03:20] the head guy

[03:23] whose name I'm blanking on, what's his

[03:24] name? What's his name? Noah. Noah has an

[03:28] alien artifact. It's basically an alien

[03:30] Sharpie and he can bop it, turn it,

[03:33] twist it, and he is able to like jack

[03:36] into the minds of people that he's

[03:39] trying to locate. So he like gets into

[03:41] the mind of Daniel's girlfriend to try

[03:43] and control her and find out where they

[03:46] are. So he can like astral project

[03:48] himself and even control her actions. is

[03:51] like he basically works her like a

[03:52] puppet,

[03:54] which Daniel is well aware of and still

[03:58] takes very minimal precautions to stop

[04:00] that from happening even though Noah is

[04:02] spamming that ability to keep tracking

[04:04] him. So Daniel's also not, you know,

[04:07] super great at this whole escaping

[04:08] thing, but he always finds a way somehow

[04:10] to slip by them. Anyway, Margaret and

[04:12] Daniel eventually meet, and it turns out

[04:14] these two have been blessed by the

[04:15] aliens, and the aliens have been here

[04:17] for a long, long time. and Wardex, that

[04:21] company has been like torturing them,

[04:22] interrogating them and using their

[04:24] technology.

[04:26] And now these two have met and their

[04:29] memories get unlocked. They shared an

[04:31] experience where the aliens chose them.

[04:33] They [ __ ] abducted them. And it's the

[04:36] scene where they're like going through

[04:39] it. They're reliving it is really,

[04:42] really really

[04:44] silly. Like the aliens present

[04:47] themselves as animals to to them while

[04:49] while they're kids and then they go to a

[04:52] ship and then an alien

[04:55] puts stones on their face and that's

[04:57] where they get their powers from which

[04:59] then randomly awaken when visited by a

[05:02] cardinal. And then eventually it ends

[05:05] with them going on air revealing all of

[05:08] the videos and the evidence and proving

[05:11] to the world aliens are real. It's

[05:14] disclosure day. And then they even wheel

[05:16] in one of the aliens. Like there was

[05:19] another detractor from that company. He

[05:21] wheels in an alien. The aliens [ __ ]

[05:23] scenile and kind of stumbles up a little

[05:26] bit and then he grabs Daniel, whispers

[05:30] something, and then delivers a message

[05:32] to the world that we don't get to hear.

[05:34] Left up to interpretation.

[05:36] That's the movie in a nutshell.

[05:40] And it's just I really wanted it to be

[05:44] good. I wanted to like it, but it's just

[05:46] not great. Like I didn't hate it. Like

[05:48] it is a wholesome movie. And there are

[05:50] moments that I think are are stronger

[05:52] than others. Uh but basically it's just

[05:57] like a really standard by the numbers

[06:00] chase film. And the chasing isn't that

[06:04] exciting. Like it never felt tense. And

[06:07] there is really cheesy scenes out the

[06:11] wazoo which have their own certain charm

[06:13] to them but like good heavens there's a

[06:16] scene where she's using her power to

[06:18] break Daniel out. So she feels where he

[06:21] is. He's been captured by Wordex. So she

[06:23] goes in and she starts like you know

[06:25] dropping in on everyone's mind but then

[06:27] also she is changing what they are

[06:30] seeing. So they are seeing their child,

[06:33] their dead grandmother, their, you know,

[06:37] tax agent, like whoever they want to

[06:39] see, they see. And then they're just

[06:41] blown away like

[06:44] and just let her do whatever she wants,

[06:46] including Noah, the main bad guy who

[06:50] you think would not care as much, but

[06:53] she just walks in through all these

[06:55] people. Noah tries to stop her, but she

[06:58] looks him in the eyes and he's seeing

[06:59] his dead wife, and he's just blown away.

[07:02] He's like,

[07:05] So then she gets to just break him out

[07:07] for free. And as people are trying to

[07:10] step in and stop her, she's looking them

[07:12] in the eyes and projecting their loved

[07:14] ones in front of them. And they just go

[07:17] and let her let her by. Like, it's not

[07:19] like she hypnotizes them or anything.

[07:21] just shows them their loved ones and

[07:23] they're just

[07:26] let her through. So then she just walks

[07:29] out of the base. It reminds me of a

[07:30] scene from a Neil Breen movie called I

[07:33] am Here Now. It actually felt straight

[07:36] out of that movie, that whole sequence,

[07:38] cuz it goes on for a while. Like

[07:42] I don't think that power would have

[07:45] allowed her to do that. Especially

[07:48] considering everyone there knows about

[07:51] like you know what the alien powers are

[07:54] capable of and that she is you know one

[07:57] of them or at least has that kind of

[07:59] gift. But I guess they when faced with

[08:02] it directly couldn't couldn't believe it

[08:04] and couldn't you know fight back. And

[08:07] there's even a re to cap off the scene.

[08:10] The uh main guy, Noah, goes, "What is

[08:14] she?" And then the other guy, who hasn't

[08:17] been like seeing anything from her cuz

[08:19] she hasn't looked him in the eye, he

[08:20] says, "Unstoppable." Then he goes and

[08:23] gets a gun and starts chasing them

[08:25] around with a gun. Well, I only just

[08:28] realized my camera was really zoomed in

[08:31] for this whole review

[08:34] and I don't really want to do it all

[08:36] over again. So, I think I'm going to let

[08:39] it ride.

[08:42] Sorry to say, but yeah, there's no need

[08:44] to keep yapping about it. There are some

[08:46] things I liked about it. Like, I think

[08:48] the first half of the film is definitely

[08:49] better than the second half. The second

[08:50] half, I think it gets really, really

[08:53] goofy. But yeah, in the first half I

[08:55] think there is some interesting things

[08:56] that they were toying around with and

[08:58] setting up and

[09:00] didn't didn't really lead to a whole

[09:02] lot, but like there were some

[09:04] interesting moments and some of the

[09:05] scenes were pretty solid. I just don't

[09:07] think any of like the big emotional

[09:09] beats were really hitting and that a lot

[09:12] of it was basically just focused on

[09:15] these chases that were hard to get into.

[09:20] It was just I don't know. It just felt

[09:22] very standard and and safe. Anyway

[09:25] though, I don't think it's like a

[09:26] horrible film. It's just not a very

[09:28] great one. And again, if Steven

[09:32] Spielberg's name wasn't the name on

[09:34] this, I I think that would be pretty

[09:37] unanimous across the board that it's

[09:39] just kind of a eh movie. That's really

[09:43] about it. So, Yep.