Disclosure Day Movie Review: Spielberg Doesn’t Have Enough of Them

LISTEN. THAT ONE word, on which the film ends, sums up filmmaker Steven Spielberg’s fascination with outer space. It is a childlike love, which sees the human in the alien world, respecting it as an extension of all living beings rather than as the real estate of billionaires’ dreams.

Spielberg picks a TV meteorologist Margaret Fairchild (a radiant Emily Blunt) and a cybersecurity specialist Daniel Kellner (the talented Josh O’Connor) to star in his new film Disclosure Day. Margaret can read minds, Daniel can understand alien language and both send the team at Wardex Corporation, a decades-old secret programme to hide alien life from the world, reeling.

There are thrilling car chases, scarily-real found footage suggesting some famous crashes, and animals who breathtakingly turn into aliens. But it is home eventually where everything returns. As a science fiction film it doesn’t have the whimsy of the recent hit, Project Hail Mary, but it is still Spielberg sending a giant rocket into outer space, asking to be friends forever