DISCLOSURE DAY (2026) – Did Steven Spielberg forget what he accomplished with the ending of Close Encounters of the Third Kind? How does he think that an elderly alien getting brought out in a wheelchair even compares, let alone equals, the wonder of his earlier film? Maybe if Disclosure Day ended with Richard Dreyfus’s character having returned to Earth and standing there beside the alien, he might have had something noteworthy.
Did Steven Spielberg forget that long before he condescendingly acted like his aliens/ Jesus angle would shock people that Ridley Scott already pursued such concepts in Prometheus? Or that even by then it had already become a trope after movies like Aliens from Spaceship Earth, God Told Me To and others.
Long time Balladeer’s Blog readers may recall that I’ve already reviewed science fiction stories from the 1800s that dealt with the Jesus/ aliens concept. Why did Spielberg think he was serving up anything that would – as he boasted – make Christians question their faith?
Television shows from The Invaders and U.F.O. to The X-Files and dozens since have worn out all of the material that Spielberg deluded himself into thinking he was pioneering in this movie. His own 2002 television miniseries Taken reworked all those cliches long before this year’s Disclosure Day.
And regarding Steven’s much-hyped theme of “empathy”, that goes out the window when you consider that these aliens lacked the empathy to NOT experiment – non-consensually – on small children.
The CGI in this So Bad It’s Good flick is pitiful. Especially when the fake animals look like tech from 20 years ago or more. And the main character’s deer in the headlights stare gets old early on. But I admit her panic attack on the train is the comedy highlight of this money-making but creatively-failing embarrassment.
We’ve all seen everything in Disclosure Day before. Over and over and over and over and over and over again.
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