- by New Deal democrat
Today is a travel day for me, and there’s no big economic news today, so enjoy this movie review instead. Regular economic nerd-dom will resume tomorrow.
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“Disclosure Day” is Steven Spielberg at his stupidest.
A big budget, bloated, logically incoherent, sprawling mess of a movie that is what happens when there is nobody left in the Big Name’s orbit who has the authority to say “no.” It’s as if he was possessed by M. Night Shyamalan and forced to make yet another attempt at B-grade sci fi.
For example: the good guy escapes one of many attempts by the bad guys to kidnap him by - I kid you not - crawling around in plain sight and driving a car into the thick of them amid a hail of bullets. Later, as if to cover all his sci-fi bases, (and there are lots of callbacks to both “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and “E.T.”, both better movies by far, among other sci-fi films) the good guy is standing in a field of grain that spontaneously develops crop circles, for no apparent reason and no significance to the plotline,
Or how about the bad guys? They start out the movie having already kidnaped one character and threatening to kill her, kidnap another character later, plot the murder of a hero, later seriously attempt a double murder, and then at the end, when shooting one of the heroes would entirely defeat them, simply shrug as if to say “Oh well. We lost. Let’s go home.”
And then there’s the final scene, which can only be described as the return of a geriatric E.T., which entirely logically undercuts the entire drama up until that point. If you have a live alien, why bother with a worldwide “Disclosure” of video which nowadays everyone would dismiss as AI slop?
And the very very end, which makes you think, I sat through 2 1/2 hours for this?
The high point of the movie was when I had to leave the theater for 5 minutes during the climactic scene in order to take a pee.
If you’re upset that this review contains spoilers (and really, it doesn’t), be grateful. I gave you back 2 1/2 hours of your life to do something better.
