A cybersecurity specialist (played by Josh O’Connor) is on the run from his secret corporation bosses involving danger and secrets in UFOs and extraterrestrials. Meanwhile, a Kansas City meteorologist (played by Emily Blunt) experiences strange abilities and powers after a cardinal looks at her during breakfast.
I would describe Disclosure Day as a mystery thriller; the film opens almost mid-story and grips the audience very quickly in a way that you don’t know what’s going on, but you’re sort of able to piece things together and want to know what is going on here.
I also appreciate how the story will cut between characters at the beginning and how you wonder how they connect and then how they eventually fuse. The different storylines together were well done and pretty interesting.
Emily Blunt is fantastic in the film; she shows how wide her acting range is and gets to do a lot of fun different kinds of acting. I would say this is easily one of her top five best acting performances of her career, but that’s just me.
Josh O’Connor is very good as well; his character is very sympathetic and down-to-earth, a very good ride-along character for the audience to follow. Plus, for someone who has a pretty thick English accent, he does an American accent pretty well.
Eve Harlow plays Jane, O’Connor's character's girlfriend, who gets swept up into the conspiracy, and I liked her character and her journey; she had a lot of fun twists and turns and, in a lot of ways, brings a lot of heart and emotional depth to the film.
Wyatt Russell plays Emily Blunt’s character’s boyfriend, and he is also very down-to-earth but brings a lot of humor through his character's bewilderment at everything going on, and he and Blunt have really good and natural chemistry together.
Coleman Domingo plays another leak/mentor to O’Connor‘s character, and Domingo, as usual, is solid; he delivers some nice speeches about telling the truth and about empathy.
Colin Firth does a good job at playing the head of the secret corporation as he tries to hunt the characters down. I will say his character is a little one-note emotionally, like Firth hits that note well, but even when we learn more about his character in this situation, I feel like we don’t see different sides of this character or at least as much as I wanted; he’s just always kind of aloof and wants to get back what O’Connor‘s character stole.
Elizabeth Marvel has a small supporting role as a noun in the film, and I thought her character brought a fun and interesting perspective to the story's events, and the actress did a very good and memorable part in the role.
They are really fun action set pieces throughout; there are at least two really good car chases that are thrilling, exhilarating, and even funny at certain points, not to mention all the practical driving effects, and CGI integration was pretty well handled and never distracting. Very well done and really shows how talented Spielberg is behind the camera.
I also liked all the comedic scenes of Blunt discovering and using her new powers; those led to some fun moments and interesting interactions with other characters.
John Williams' score works in the film. Well, it’s one of the scores that I couldn’t necessarily hum from memory, but while watching the movie, it does fit and works to the film's advantage.
The CGI throughout again never feels out of place, and there are some cool shots involving old camera footage that I really dug.
I liked how some of the extraterrestrial technology was used in the story; it’s just enough that you understand what’s going on, but they don’t go into a lot of detail to explain exactly what things are and how they work, so there is this nice bit of mystery to everything.
I will say once the third act starts to kick in and characters start to meet up, Spielberg really pushes his own brand of "childlike wonder in amazement” to the characters, and he really pushes it to 11. Personally, I think it comes on a little strong, like certain parts feel like you’re about to watch one of those really sappy Christmas Coca-Cola commercials. It works fine within the context of the story, and it’s definitely one of the elements that I think will be different for each audience member, but for me, it’s like eating too much candy: a little bit can be very good, but a lot can come off as overly sweet.
I do appreciate and like some of the humor that happens towards the climax, but once the climax actually kicks in, I feel like things happen pretty easily for the characters, and I found what happened with the villains very anticlimactic at the end, like this film is almost an hour and a half, a lot of build-up for an ending that felt a little too… Well, I guess that’s it.
Also, let me just say, without spying anything about the ending… Man, there is some really good Wi-Fi towards the end of this movie, like you almost want to be like, "Yeah, yeah, there are aliens and stuff, but how strong is that Internet signal?” lol
I also got to see the movie with my friends, so that was cool
Despite my feelings on the climax and Spielberg’s strong use of whimsy, I do think overall Disclosure Day is a very well-made film in both a technical and emotional sense, with incredibly well-acted performances from the entire cast, entertaining set pieces, and interesting ideas. I give the film between 3 and a half ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 & 4 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️; this film is definitely… Out of this world. 🌎😂
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