Disclosure Day review

I suspect that if proof of aliens really was disclosed at this current febrile time the public reaction would be hysterical with calls for them to be locked up, dropped on the Moon or something similarly draconian. This is not presently a world receptive to `others` of the human variety let along extra-terrestrials. The idea of such a reveal is what drives Steven Spielberg’s latest which returns him to the territory of ET and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Disclosure Day lacks the certainty of those earlier movies though and the sense of wonder they created is in shorter supply. I think it’s potentially a good story presented in a way that doesn’t do it justice. Spoilers disclosed after the break... It opens with one of its main characters already on the run carrying proof of our many close encounters yet it ends at what feels like the point where the story is only half told. I doubt a sequel is envisaged and this is not, as was predicted by some, a sequel itself to Close…