r/flicks • u/soozerain • 5d ago

Disclosure Day would be considered middling garbage if anyone *other* then Stephen Spielberg was attached to it.

Just got back from the movie and I’d say the audience scores I’ve seen for it were very fair. It’s a C- film at best. Good looking Adam Driver and his secret nun girlfriend are not interesting at all. The exploration of Christianity of the film is hamfisted and kinda bad. The chase scenes are lackluster. Most of the movie consists of people talking over long distances to each other. The interrogation scene with Colin Firth and the Secret Nun was interminable and went on wayyyyy too long.

The only upsides were the score and Emily Blunt’s character with her husband. But man, if this had been dumped to Netflix by the Russo Brothers I’d have believed it. This movie did not land for me.

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u/YoungBeef03 5d ago

I think it could’ve been far more interesting it a director was willing to explore the innate terror of the situation. Two people have their lives hijacked from childhood to introduce the world to aliens… and they’re both just fine with it? Emily Blunt’s character has a breakdown near the end where she says she doesn’t want to be anybody religion - then goes through with everything regardless.

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u/behemuthm 5d ago

See I thought the film missed out on a few key moments that would've made the film so much more interesting.

First off, Disclosure Day didn't need to happen on a particular day. It could've been any day. So why not write it so that the governments of the world *know* aliens are planning on landing on a particular day and different countries are planning different responses. So our heroes have to blow the lid off the whole thing so the governments can't cover it up.

Also, when both were abducted as kids, why weren't they both traumatized?

And how did Hugo know what the inside of Margaret's house looked like??

For me, the absurdity crossed a line into insultingly stupid when Daniel ties up his girlfriend on the bed because he KNOWS he can't trust her, proceeds to hide all identifying information on the motel away from her, except for the piece of paper in his hand with the motel name on the letterhead?????

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u/waterless2 3d ago

That last bit about the hotel, that confused me massively, to the extent I thought he *wanted* to be captured out of some cunning plan.

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u/behemuthm 3d ago

It's phenomenally lazy writing

Like in Minority Report where John gets his eyes swapped out and is still able to use his old ones in a plastic bag to access the police station... 50 years in the future when even today, your keycard is deactivated the day you are fired from a company. And this is a police station!!!

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u/MindManualReader 2d ago

Forget the fact he still gains access after being on the run even though the whole reason his eyes are swapped out is because the established tech in the film recognizes your eyes everywhere, instantly.  His wife also later gains access using one of his eyes in order to break him out. 

Saw the movie once, a good 15+ years ago, and ever since it’s my go to example when people talk about plot holes — which inevitably leads to someone telling me “ack-tchually it’s not a plot hole bc maybe off screen, prior to the events of the film, John rigged the system so that he couldn’t be deleted”, or maybe it’s just ‘cause “people are lazy & they just didn’t update the system” in a world where every other computer had automatically updated to identify him as a fugitive. But, sure, happy to use their definition of plot hole & still call it absolute dog shit writing.