New To Streaming Review: Disclosure Day.

Disclosure Day. Written by David Koepp and Steven Spielberg. directed by Steven Spielberg.

Financed and produced by greedy cynics.

Ok. This movie wants to be, rather than a sequel to  Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind, a companion piece. 

 Assuming all that happened? The alien visit, the musical data dump, Roy Neary, all of that?

What comes next? 

 In our current day and age? Someone would leak it to the press.

 As is clear from the trailers, that's what this movie is about. Someone leaking clear evidence of ETs and their visitation to the press. 

 Which, if it had come out a couple of years after Close Encounters, might have been fascinating.

 But after all this time, after countless alien visitation movies, documentaries, the X Files, Art Bell?

It's not particularly diverting.The public already believes that intelligent aliens exist, and are fairly certain that our governments have been covering up their frequent visitations. 

People don't want confirmation that they're here.

They want to know why. 

This movie doesn't even try to float an answer, or even an idea. Worse, it tries to get away with the same old dodge from Close Encounters and all the other alien mystery box movies.

There is an explanation. The audience is told that much, but no details.

 Movie looks good and sounds good. The acting is uniformly mediocre, but my guess it is due to the material they have to play, rather than any lack of talent.

There's nothing here to match the Neary's marital break up, or Jillian's anguish over her child's abduction. 

Nor are there the sort of large scale events to which the actors might react. Semi trailers full of huge and secret equipment, military patrols of closed land and highways? Large and in the end huge spaceships?

Five or six  black sedans, and a couple of TV control rooms. A couple of living spaces. There is great stuff, amazing stuff, proof and much more, we are told, in the disclosure, but that is all seen by us in small displays. In bits and pieces. For a revelatory event which would have tremendous impact on humanity as a whole- honey, the neighbors are here!-   the scale shown is astonishingly small. 

3 out of 10.

Errata.

Emily  Blunt can do an American accent, but the one she used here is pretty shaky.  Wyatt Russell is wasted in a useless role. Mr Darcy tries manfully to chew up the scenery. But it is far too thin.