Disclosure Day shows that it’s time again for Steven Spielberg to dig out the aliens… always the aliens.
He’s covered this topic a number of times before in the past, so what can be bring to it that’s new?
Dr. Daniel Kellner (Josh O’Connor – The History Of Sound) is a whistleblower, who has a telepathic device that the authorities want back, because he’s going to reveal to the world all the secrets that he’s been paid to help protect so far. Why? “Because the public have a right to know”.
Never mind that you’d potentially go to jail for the rest of your life, all of a sudden, he now decides it’s time to blow the lid on what the US government knows about all this.
Meanwhile, Margaret Fairchild (Emily Blunt – The Devil Wears Prada 2) is a so-so weathergirl, who’s just getting through life with her better half, Jackson (Wyatt Russell – Thunderbolts), until a bird flies in and lands on the table, while she’s having breakfast. Thanks to its appearance, and for no apparent reason at first, suddenly, she can speak fluent Russian, and stops various people along the way and knows exactly what they’re thinking and how to solve the problems in their life – rather like the long-forgotten BBC1 pilot, Empathy, from 2007 and starring Stephen Moyer. I’d have loved a full series of that, but then he got a better offer from True Blood, and became significantly more famous.
Still, since Margaret knows everything, she’d be good on ITV’s You Bet!
Also thrown into the mix is Bono’s daughter, Eve Hewson (The Perfect Couple) as Daniel’s girlfriend, Jane, although her role is completely superfluous; Colin Firth (Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy) may as well be Mr Darcy again, but as a nasty government bod, who’s chasing after Daniel… well, getting others to do the chasing as he’s 65; and Colman Domingo‘s (Michael) role takes so long to get to the point of realising why he’s there, that the end result is not worth the effort.
Oh, and given that Ms Hewson is playing an ex-nun, instead of saying she was a ‘novice’, everyone’s putting on a bad American accent, so she’s a “No-viss”. FFS.
As you’ll know from the trailer, the mystery begins when Margaret’s about to do her weather forecast, but instead, starts making clack-clack sounds, but it soon falls into stupid territory – such as in a scene when two trains on opposite tracks have an issue because a car’s stuck on one of the the. Cue lots of beeping of horns, but no attempt by the train in peril to slow down. In reality, they’d put the emergency brake on; Spielberg throws in a Close Encounters reference by having a character state, “If you are seeing this, you are not alone”, and at any time, everyone panics so much, they destroy their mobile phones so they can’t be tracked… when all you need to do is just take the SIM card out(!)
With so much padding in Disclosure Day, it’s on Daniel to admit the obvious with “I don’t understand what’s happening!”
However, the biggest traversty comes when… Ooh, spoiler time…
Disclosure Day is in cinemas now, but isn’t yet available to pre-order on Blu-ray or DVD. However, once announced, it will appear on the New DVD Blu-ray 3D and 4K releases UK list.
Detailed specs:
Cert: 
Running time: 145 minutes
Release date: June 10th 2026
Studio: Universal Pictures UK
Aspect ratio: 2.39:1 (35mm, ARRIRAW (4.6K), Anamorphic Panavision, X-OCN XT (5.8K, 8.6K))
Rating: 1/10
Director: Steven Spielberg
Producers: Kristie Macosko Krieger, Steven Spielberg
Screenplay: David Koepp
Music: John Williams
Cast:
Margaret Fairchild: Emily Blunt
Dr. Daniel Kellner: Josh O’Connor
Noah Scanlon: Colin Firth
Jane Blankenship: Eve Hewson
Hugo Wakefield: Colman Domingo
Jackson: Wyatt Russell
Casper Boyd: Henry Lloyd-Hughes
Sister Maura: Elizabeth Marvel
Serena: Hettienne Park
Santiago: Tommy Martinez
Angela Childs: Gabby Beans
Claypool: Jeremy Shamos
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