Disclosure Day: Steven Spielberg Discovers Evolutionary Biology, Riffs On the Role of Religion In Society and Makes Another Movie About Extraterrestrials

June 2026

 

Heh... ET...

 

You better call home...

Because someone needs to come rescue you...

 

Because those dudes at the Defense Department are going to dissect you...

 

Now there must be some rule...

 

That all aliens in the movies need to look the same...

With large heads, enormous bug eyes, lizard skin covering skeletal bodies...

With no genitalia...

And they always walk like a 90-year-old man who needs his hips replaced...

 

And they come in space ships that are aerodynamically ridiculous...

 

So there is not much new in Disclosure Day...

 

Because....

 

Spielberg already made this movie..

 

Twice...

 

(See Close Encounters of the Third Kind and ET)

 

And his third foray into a UFO story..

 

Stars that Big Eared Guy... Josh O’Connor...

And I’m sorry I just can’t get past those ears...

 

Emily Blunt...

Colin Firth.. who definitely rocked that blue suit and beard...

 

And Colman Domingo... who seems to be in everything these days...

(The Four Seasons, Michael, and Euphoria...)

 

In a story about a cybersecurity expert...

Who turns whistleblower...

Against the military industrial complex...

Who are trying to hide 79 years worth of evidence about UFOs...

 

Now that is really original...

 

All set in Kansas City...

Which did not look anything like Kansas City...

 

Maybe because they didn’t film there...

 

There was some time spent in Indiana...

Now I don’t know why Spielberg has thing with that particular state...

But it was also featured in Close Encounters of the Third Kind...

 

Now the most I can say about this film...

 

Is that I was nonplussed. ...

 

Because I couldn’t figure out if the aliens were meant to be God...

Or the message was that God loves every living thing in the universe ...

Space aliens included...

And so should we...

 

Even if they look weird...

And aren’t “human”...

 

Now this message is coupled with a fair amount of religious imagery...

A bloody crucifix, stigmata...

A Catholic character who argues that if the world learns there are space aliens among us ...

They will lose faith in God...

And society will fall apart...

 

But the aliens sometimes appear as animals so as not to scare the humans..

 

And Emily Blunt and O’Connor have been touched by the aliens...

Or was it God?...

I wasn’t sure...

But they are now prophets...

With Blunt as an all knowing angel like character...

 

Now if you’re confused... so was I...

 

But I am getting the impression that...

Right now...

Hollywood thinks it needs to throw in a little religion every now and then...

(See also Euphoria...)

 

Because.. you know...the zeitgeist...

 

But only just a little bit ...

 

Because it’s so associated with folks ...

They’d rather not have too much to do with...

 

But there are also scenes that mimic a near death experience...

With characters going toward the light...

And seeing dead loved ones...

 

And riff about how empathy is a human superpower...

Which makes me think someone has been reading Frans de Waal...

And now has some “deep thoughts” on evolutionary biology...

 

But this all just skims the surface...

And so comes across as intellectually pretentious....

 

As it is sandwiched in between car chases...

An exciting train sequence...

 

And I did like the bit about the invisible fire truck...

 

But when the FBI come for you...

Does Spielberg really think they wouldn’t send someone to the back of the house..

In case you thought of going out the bathroom window...

 

Of course, Disclosure Day has an Edward Snowden character ...

Who wants to go on TV and expose what the government has been hiding about UFOs...

 

And all this happens as World War III is on the horizon...

In a Cuban Missile Crisis like scenario...

With folks panic buying gas and supplies...

 

But this conflict involves Russia and North Korea...

 

Which did make me wonder ...

 

How long was this film in production?...

 

Because that scenario seems so last decade...

 

But so does the storyline about the government hiding what it has on UFOs...

 

Because weren’t those files released recently?

 

And then there are the usual sci-fi devices...

Which in this case involve some extraterrestrial technology...

That allows remote control of humans...

Can cause seizures...

And gives the characters the opportunity to grimace convincingly while they are using it...

 

And then this fine mess ends with the space alien...

Standing up slowly from his wheelchair...

To send everyone a message on live TV...

 

That is supposed to be profound...

And which definitely had a Twilight Zone feel...

 

But, unfortunately, this was the only part of this unremarkable film...

 

That had any suspense...

 

 

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