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Well I found it unwatchable tbh. I watched about an hour and a half and left the theater and that's a rarity for me to leave. I don't know what to say it's bad. Love Emily Blunt too so it's a bummer. Just garbage

Lukewarm recycled salad of conspiracy and alien cliche triteness. Almost no motives are coherently connected into a compelling story. Mr Spielberg was never a caliber of Kubrick or even Hitchcock and was somewhat exploitative in terms of taking some zeitgeist elements to make the movie more relevant. Most annoying is ‘messaging’ that is educating us what is this movie about by explicitly shoving it in characters mouths. Raiders of the lost arc are Shakespeare compared to this - the best movie of director who used to know how to do a popcorn fun entertainment.

When Steven Spielberg directs a movie, you make sure that you watch it. For me it was a week that featured a young and upcoming voice in Hollywood to a veteran, a master of his craft returning to one of his favourite themes in cinema. Spielberg returns to the director's chair after 4 years and he is reunited with composer John Williams & writer David Koepp for the 5th time (1st time in 18 years).What news would make an impact so big that a world on the brink of WWIII shifts all its focus to it? Well, aliens would do it for you. Disclosure Day is the day, the entire world gets to know secrets that have been kept from us by the government. The movie shows a group of whistle blowers trying to achieve **** be honest, I wasn't a big fan of the trailer of Disclosure Day. I was not so keen on watching it either. Maybe it was the combination of Spielberg, Aliens and Emily Blunt that did it for me. For the most part, I was pretty impressed with the movie. You are thrown right into the proceedings and you are made to figure out what is happening. Emily Blunt is a superstar and as a Kansas City meteorologist, she steals the show with her performance. Eve Hewson is another favourite, but she doesn't have much to do. Josh O'Connor, Colin Firth are good. Colman Domingo is the new Pedro Pascal as he is in everything. Disclosure Day toys with the idea of how aliens have existed for years and how the government has been keeping it under wraps to avoid a potential frenzy. I may not be a big believer in all this but it is nice to watch conspiracy theories play out in a movie. A "what-if?" scenario for us to be entertained. I loved how they kept the tension and intrigue building till the final act (which is the only portion that I wasn't a big fan of). Disclosure Day builds tension with conversation and the chain of events. Do not go in expecting aliens, action set pieces and such. This is Spielberg, so go in expecting his style of filmmaking.

Just watch Contact. This films reeks of an older man riding on brand recognition. The CGI looks 20 years old, the writing follows the same pattern. The tone has a bipolarity that teeters between Spielberg humor and a deeper conspiracy thriller that just doesn't gel. O'Conner and Blunt do a great job with what's here (although she looks a bit alien with that new surgery) but at the end of the day, this just wasn't worth watching. Finally they made the blacklist government agents into bumbling cartoon villains. A real disclosure day event did recently occurred, look it up and see how that really went for 13 people.

Emily Blunt and Josh O’Connor are at the center of this story, as two people who have a connection with an extraterrestrial force. Colin Firth plays the corporate leader who’s out to prevent the truth, which leads to the extended chase that makes up most of the movie. There are several thrilling action scenes, recalling Spielberg’s “Raiders” days, esp. the riveting train sequence. There are also creative moments of sci-fi wonder. Being Spielberg, there’s also an underlying message of empathy and connection. Janusz Kaminski’s flare-filled cinematography adds to the mysterious effect and 94-year-old John Williams returns to create the score. The captivating performances add to the dramatic effect, but this is the director’s movie. Spielberg at this best: bold, compelling and exciting.

Compared to SO MANY awesome Sci-Fi movies of the past involving the same topic - The Arrival, Close Encounters, ET, Signs, Nope, Cloverfield, etc - this just doesn't hold up. AT ALL. It is incredibly boring, uninspired, and feels like watching an overlong Netflix movie from some no-name director, not Stephen freaking Spielberg. If you want Spielberg on aliens do yourself a favor and go back and watch Close Encounters or ET not this sad example of an aging director who's lost the mojo.

It’s no exaggeration to say that Steven Spielberg is one of the best and most influential directors of all time. His filmography contains a staggering number of red-hot bangers: Duel (1971), Jaws (1975), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Empire of the Sun (1987), Jurassic Park (1993), Schindler’s List (1993), Saving Private Ryan (1998), War of the Worlds (2005) and many, many more. The bloke has knocked out an outrageous number of all-time classics. He has also, it has to be said, been responsible for more than a couple of stinkers along the way. 1941 (1979), Hook (1991) and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) are but a sample of some of the black marks on Spielberg’s record. That latter example is the most germane here, as we’re talking about his latest flick Disclosure Day. Once again, the 79-year-old legend of cinema returns to one of his favourite topics: aliens. Now, said subject gave us Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, two absolutely wonderful films. But aliens also crept into Crystal Skull and the results were significantly less stellar. So, how does Disclosure Day – a film that reunites Spielberg with longtime collaborators screenwriter David Koepp (Jurassic Park, Crystal Skull) and composer John Williams (Jaws, Raiders) – stack up to the maestro’s earlier work?Not well, friends. Not well at all.Disclosure Day is the story of two apparently unconnected individuals. You’ve got Daniel Kellner (Josh O’Connor), a cybersecurity expert turned whistleblower who is on the run from the nefarious Wardex corporation with a backpack full of secrets, and Margaret Fairchild (Emily Blunt), an ambitious weather lady on Kansas City television who inexplicably gains strange abilities one day, like being able to speak fluent Korean and light mind-reading.Margaret, in particular, has little understanding of what’s going on and before she knows it, has become a target of Wardex and its sinister boss man, Noah Scanlon (Colin Firth). Of course, Daniel and Maggie have a connection that they can’t possibly imagine, and a huge-reality changing secret about extraterrestrial life to share with the world, if only they can survive long enough to disclose it.There’s nothing wrong with the premise of Disclosure Day. It’s a solid little mystery thriller conceit, with loads of potential. The problem is with almost everything else. Beginning in media res, Koepp’s script desperately wants us to feel a sense of danger and urgency as our main characters participate in a seemingly endless game of cat and mouse with Wardex goons. Unfortunately, the antagonists are such incompetent boobs that they never feel terribly threatening and if the stakes get too high, never mind, Mags will just develop a new power to get them out of whatever sticky situation they find themselves in. The runtime of this thing doesn’t help either, we’re talking 2+ hours here, where the bulk of the action is fleeing, getting caught, escaping and then fleeing all over again. And **** **** the plus side, the acting is mostly very good. O’Connor and Blunt are both likable protagonists with the latter doing fine work as always. Colman Domingo and Wyatt Russell are both solid in important supporting roles and Eve Hewson is good as Daniel’s girlfriend, even if her character is wildly inconsistent. Firth, oddly, is much less successful as Scanlon, never quite achieving the sense of menace required to make the role sing. However, the real dud here is the script. Koepp just can’t seem to find the magic in this story and the narrative moves from dull to absurd to mawkish and back to dull again. Even worse, Spielberg’s direction feels strangely flat and unengaged for most of the flick. The lighting is washed out, the action scenes merely competent and while the climax is a little more dynamic, it’s a shadow of similarly themed films that he’s done before. Hell, even Williams’ score feels oddly phoned in, as uninspired as everything that surrounds it.Look, we were all rooting for Disclosure Day. A return to subject matter covered so brilliantly by one of our best directors. With a sense of optimism and hope for humanity’s future featuring a stacked cast. Yes please, mate! Unfortunately, the resulting film is a baffling misfire and squanders the oodles of potential here. Overlong, ponderous, goofy and only occasionally enjoyable, Disclosure Day sadly joins the ranks of the lesser entries in Spielberg’s otherwise impressive canon.

Average movie. Don't get the hype, or hyperbole from some critics. Completely Average.

This might be like a Dan Brown book, but he would do it way better — all his stories are equally dumb, implausible, and entertaining. And this is what some love. Here we have a movie where it feels like no one knew what they were filming: a sci-fi thriller, a horror, or a fairy tale... 'Let's decide in post-production.' Instead, they kept it all in at once — incohesive and uneven until the cringy finale.

An ambitious and exciting return to sci-fi that occasionally gets lost in its own ideas, but delivers enough spectacle, emotion, and wonder to make the journey worthwhile. Though its not-perfect, it stands as an impossible-to-ignore sci-fi experience.

Put this to a double-blind test, and 99% of people would call it a generic Netflix movie, not a Spielberg film.

I was expecting something on par with "Close Encounters", some kind of a spiritual sequel, but what I got was a really bad episode of late "The X-Files" - not even... something worse. Generic "chase macguffin" thriller, incoherent and shallow story, infodump... this film is simply long and boring. The plot is predictable; there have been many films on a similar theme, but better. Zero character development. Fundamental flaws in logic. Awkward dialogue. Poor CGI... The ending of a film should be its beginning. And the idea that evidence must be disclosed in the main media seems bizarre from today's perspective. Yeah, I've lost faith that Spielberg will ever make another good movie. PROS: The actors are decent (especially Emily Blunt), but they don't have anything to work with. Music. A few scenes.

McGuffin for 3 hours. Terrible payoff. Awkward acting. Worst direction ever. Building a 3 hour movie on a vague set up without diving deeper? Inconsistencies of characters with magical powers solve the day, relieving the writers of any real problem solving. Easily a stain on Spielbergs legacy. This movie alone take Spielbergs down many notches and makes you question why we ever crowned his one of the best. This movie retroactively does damage to his other works and you see the gimmick of Spielberg in cheap paint by numbers, but of an ultimate picture that doesn’t make sense. If a student had this movie as an idea, the professor would instantly fail them in film class. Pure hot garbage. I see %90 of wide releases, and I never leave reviews. This is the movie that inspired me to reset my Metacritic PW and write a review to warn everyone. This movie is destructively bad. Spielberg might actually be fully cooked.

It's the first time i've tutted and shook my head at a Spielberg film... he's created some below par movies in recent years but this just felt off - Until it was semi saved at the end. A mix of pacing, annoying characters and a bit of Spielberg virtue signalling. It felt more like what the director would like the world to be rather than a fully thought out movie designed to captivate. At no point was there any genuine peril or danger to the main characters - nor was there any part of the story that made you grip on to and get behind. Really interesting themes - just not executed well.

This movie ****. And so does this site considering how many times I've had to rewrite this review because i wasn't sure on giving this movie a 1 or a 0. The villains which were hyped up to be this top secret government agents do the stupidest decisions ever just to continue the plot. The heroes aren't that smart neither, but that isn't much of a feat considering the sad excuse for a top secret agency they're going up against. There were some action scenes which made me think the good guys were in trouble, but even then that wasn't enough to make me care for the main characters. There was this one scene near the end which did interest me for a bit but that's about all the praise i can give to this movie. Nothing was explained in detail, so you're just sitting here for half of the movie thinking "Why did they do this ? Why do that if doing this is the better option ? Why did they do that ?" for the sake of forcing action scenes or stupid stuff like that. The ending was also a cliffhanger which quite honestly did not make me care whether there was a sequel or not. Overall, i would recommend chinese water torture instead.

Very cringe. You will find at least 1 people crying about basic thing every 10 minutes. And even the Main Character crying because she “don’t want to remember her past” and because “this childhood home is her life not anyone’s” Woww so narcissistic. The story line is boring. the buildup is sooo unnecessary and the character even worse. I have NEVER hated a movie until i watch this.

The theatre I saw the movie in was almost empty and everyone exiting at the end looked a bit sad! I think that about sums it up. very disappointing.

Absolutely shocked by the low review scores on here. This film is f**king phenomenal.

I thought this movie was so dumb prob worst movie I’ve watched this year and I’ve seen some slop

Mais um filme de ET do Spielberg. O filme é bom, começa em uma trama com mais suspense. Mas assim que entendemos sobre o que se trata e o rumo que tá tomando, vira um filme de "Correr de A para B", com bastante cena de perseguição. Pra um filme tão longo, se cortar toda a metade dele talvez não faça diferença. Tentam abordar uma discussão sobre Religião e reação da humanidade sobre potenciais segredos, mas achei raso. Acredito que atualmente as pessoas estão menos sensíveis a ficarem impressionadas com esse tipo de assunto. Senti minha experiência prejudicada pelos trailers, consegui prever muita coisa e quase não fui surpreendido.

Go buy a ticket for the biggest screen you can find. Go in blind, no spoilers. You will leave the theater reflecting and piecing together the movie after you’ve watched it. It’s a fun and thought provoking watch. Reminds me of how movies used to be.

just wasted 2.5 hours of my life on random bs. weird plot, nothing is even explained, the villians are incompetent, the side characters act like outcasts

I thought the film was excellent and highly recommend it. The acting, in particular, was outstanding!

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I've created an account specifically to say how disappointing and un-interesting this movie was. If Nothingburger was a movie, this is what it would have been.

Spielberg returns to one of his favourite themes, this time with a less fantastical tone: aliens. The plot, presented as a conspiracy theory, has just the right amount of suspense to keep the viewer on the edge of their seat, and a final act that leaves questions unanswered. Better that than a happy ending, don’t you think?

So this movie gives away everything in the trailer. Even if it didn't it is a very boring and predictable film. There is nothing unique here and it feels like a chore to get through. Conmpare this film to "Arrival" and it feels like a school kid wrote it. The aninmal CGI's also look like they were unused assets from Snow White. If Stevens name was not attached to this it would be a straight to streaming release.

A huge mess of a film. Visually uninspiring (with the exception of some of the worst CGI animals I've ever seen), and nonsensical plotting. The protagonists seem incapable of behaving rationally, and are endlessly rushing off to yet another obscure location, rather than going where they need to go. Meanwhile, the villains seem unsure how villainous they are - not that it makes much difference, since they are hysterically incompetent. I just don't understand the generally good reviews. Avoid.

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You will leave the cinema wondering where those 3 hours of your life went. Its actually amazing that they were able to come up with a plot this bad. I left the cinema genuinely worried for Mr. Spielberg's mental health. Avoid at all costs.

Better than I expected. I expected action yet bought into the “lack of wonder” narrative of a fraction of reviewers. I found plenty of wonder in Disclosure Day. Wonder alone was not Spielberg’s goal (as it was in Close Encounters). Disclosure’s goal is a dialog between two opposed points of view: (A) Eight billion people deserve to know the truth about aliens; including, the power of empathy good aliens represent (here limited to only good Grays); vs (B) The cherished status quo, high stock market and endless war-time boom of Epstein elites cannot last if Disclosure succeeds massively. What I also haven’t seen in other reviews is this: Disclosure Day several times juxtaposes the yadda yadda news cycle distractions: wars, UFC fight on White House lawn stuff—with the deep human interest in evidence of human’s place in a living galaxy. We are not alone. God did not make an entire universe for humans alone. Disclosure has many shots of the public turning away from crappy yada-yadda news to learn something meaningful from Disclosure video evidence. Thee are over 100 VFX shots in this film, maybe a few hundred. Following the recent trend most impressively of Sinners (2025) 100% of the VFX are invisible, easy to miss altogether. There is wonder in this; as well as, in the never before seen physical gag seen a the end of a long car chase.

Tedious and so meandering before getting to a point. This is sloppy storytelling with extremely poor plot development and execution. The construction and even the dialogue is hackneyed. I mean you have a newscast talking about Defcon changes, and later you see people stocking up at a store in anticipation of some possible event (I assume a world on the edge of destruction) yet the story spends about one minute on this cataclysmic potential and never really addresses it. A gigantic hole in story telling. Onto the rest of the story it moves at a glacial pace with frankly bizarre things that happened to the main protagonists that simply happen because they happen without explanation. Such as what is the rational of the Hansel house, why were these two selected, what are the animals about that lead them, what kicked in the sudden activation of these two. So many things stuffed into this stew without satisfactory explanation. Also what are the crystals about and what is their true power? It appears they can do whatever is needed at the moment. Frankly, some of the acting was over wrought and over the top. Oh and don't let me be remiss in how incredulous the escape of the characters are, they are able to out run a cadre of skilled professionals. Yes I get it you need to suspend your disbelief sometimes, but I'm not going to suspend it indefinitely. And the female anchor describing the videos at the end is supposedly a professional is at a lost for words. Laughable. This is a failure as a film it is a predictable mish mash that played for 2 hours (without obligatory credits) that felt like 3 hours. I kept saying to myself are we getting to a point here? Save your money.

I don't get the point of this. All of these themes have been used before, there's nothing new added to this. I get it; I want to know they're real too, 100%, and maybe Steven was just bored, but seriously... and Katy Perry is not pretty and is a terrible actress.

i've rarely given any move below a 5 star rating and yet here we are. i was bored throughout the entire movie and was waiting for it to get good and it never happened. i was expecting alot more from this move and i wish i had never wasted my money on it. i should of watched masters of the universe instead

Was hard watch. Emily Blunt have completely butchered her face, it's hard to not laugh whenever she's on screen

'Disclosure Day' isn't Spielberg's best, but it's not a complete failure either. Emily Blunt is phenomenal, projecting a wide range of emotions from beginning to end. Furthermore, the questions it raises about religion, empathy, and the possibility of extraterrestrial life provide food for thought. However, the rest of the characters are quite forgettable, and the "catch me, you escape, catch me" structure is exhausting. David Koepp's screenplay leaves much to be desired.

It's more of a documentary-style reaction than a real science fiction film. The aim is simply to validate the existence of aliens through a rather simplistic story with minimal special effects.

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About 30 minutes of interesting scenes. 15 at the beginning and 15 at the end. Everything in between is extremely boring and uninteresting. Save your money and time.

Lots of gossips and boring scenes before showing anything interesting making you in the process lose interest on the main story... lengthy movie for nothing much Don't waste your time and money

Just a mediocre movie. Expected more from seeing the Trailers, who are a bit misleading. Its more a "run away and get chased" movie, than an alien science fiction.

Disclosure Day (12A) is a sci-fi thriller. The world is on the brink of war. Ambitious tv weather presenter, Margaret (Emily Blunt), has a strange experience while discussing her next job move with boyfriend Jackson (Wyatt Russell). She is running late for her 90 seconds at the end of the news. Just in time, she starts her forecast but speaks in an unknown clicking language which airs before the station can change camera. This makes her a person of interest to both secretive organisation Wardex, led by Noah (Colin Firth) and a group of whistle-blowers led by Hugo (Colman Domingo) who are planning to reveal some highly sensitive information to a troubled world. Meanwhile, Daniel (Josh O'Connor) a cybersecurity expert is also being hunted by Wardex who have kidnapped his girlfriend Jane (Eve Hewson) to get him to return the data he stole. Both Margaret and Daniel are key to an unfolding drama that is basically an extended chase but which tantalisingly drip feeds important details along the way to pique our interest and keep us watching. There are demonstrations of advanced technology using a form of telepathy that enables Noah to both control others and interrogate them without them being in the same physical location. How this technology was obtained is one of the reasons why the whistle-blowers want to inform humanity of what is being done in their name. Depending on what you think of the topic of aliens and their existence in our universe, you may be excited by this film that builds on the conspiracy theories of Roswell or you may feel that there are too many plot holes to invalidate the main driver of the film that we have a right to know. Given the director is Spielberg, who directed Close Encounters in the 1980s, comparisons have been made with the earlier film. However the former is regarded as a classic, whereas this may struggle to make the same impact. Certainly my fellow film goers, Dean and Ruth, differed from my opinion of this one. I enjoyed it but Dean considered it to be poorly developed and lacking in sophistication. If you like sci-fi, you will want to watch it and make up your own mind.

The 1990s are calling and they want their conspiracy plot devices back. Disclosure Day has a genuinely interesting premise, but its disjointed, and at times laughable, storytelling, combined with plot holes worthy of Swiss cheese, takes an otherwise highly crafted film and turns it into an exercise that insults the audience’s intelligence. This is yet another example of no one speaking truth to power. Who in Spielberg’s orbit has the courage to tell him “no”? Judging by this film, no one. If there are aliens out there, I wouldn’t blame them if they kidnapped a few more cattle or graffitied our cornfields after being portrayed as a race of bumbling morons.

This is one of those movies with plenty of critics hyping it yet for the folks that actually pay for a ticket, this film is a serious letdown. There are plenty of classic Spielberg elements present in this film, but unlike all his previous directorial efforts, this film never succeeds in bringing all the pieces together to form a cohesive whole. As a result, the film lacks a satisfying payoff for the audience. Thankfully, I’ll forget this film soon enough. Thanks to all the critics misleading audiences into thinking this movie is worth their time.

This is one of the dumbest movies I've ever seen. Two people near us were snoring halfway through. The behavior by all government figures in this movie is so unrealistic, it should have ended in the first 10 minutes, then 10 minutes later, then 10 minutes later. The positive is that it has a great cast, and Emily Blunt's acting was notably great.

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Capolavoro. Come si fa a dare recensioni negative a questo film? Ma ce li avete gli occhi per guardare?! Mah...

A masterclass in filmmaking! Includes an Oscar-worthy performance from Emily Blunt, fun action sequences, and a genuinely affecting climax. The only thing holding it back are some really cartoony CGI animals. It continues threads that Spielberg has revisited throughout his career and advances them in a meaningful way. Wonder returns to the big screen!