Its been eight years since Spielberg helmed a summer blockbuster with 2018’s ‘Ready Player One’ and he returns to one of his core interests of alien life forces making contact with us that he first explored in 1977’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind with his new film Disclosure Day.
Shrouded in secrecy the trailers have already strongly hinted at this alien aspect of the film and opens with Dr Daniel Kellner (Josh O Connor) have been cornered by government agency types led by Noah Scanlon (Colin Firth) but soon gives them the slip and spends the rest of the film being hunted by the teams led by Casper Boyd (Henry Lloyd-Hughes taking his bully boy persona from The Inbetweeners to new heights). At the same time Kansas TV weather girl Margaret Fairchild (Emily Blunt) finds herself with linguist skills and powers she has no knowledge of ever having had before. Unknown to each other their paths are inexplicably to dross each with a common purpose which has the potential to change the world if they can remain out of the clutches of Scanlon’s malevolent intention. And at the centre of much of this is another worldly metal that’s dangerous to handle needing to be treated with kid gloves or better still kept at arms length – a kind of uranium equivalent of Meghan Markle
With the film having been kept under wraps it would be churlish to spoil it but it’s no secret that Spielberg’s interest in UFO’s and alien life has been a preoccupation for decades and this expands on previous films and TV series to take in mind control, remote viewing yet in keeping with the directors oeuvre extra terrestrial life is benign, helpful and ultimately friendly. Like Close Encounters there’s a cover up conspiracy at the centre of this but there’s not quite the cinematic spectacle of that film but continues with that films theme that we are not the only ones in the universe.
Blunt and Firth turn in the expected good performances whilst O’Connor steps up to big budget blockbuster for the first time. Spielberg handles it all as adroitly as might be expected but in an age of AI what is revealed is not so startling
Disclosure Day is neither a sequel or prequel to Close Encounters of the Third Kind but instead is more of a companion piece.
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Here’s the Disclosure Day trailer….
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