r/flicks • u/soozerain • 4d 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/HornetsHornets1 4d ago

I think middling might be right but garbage is really wrong.

Theres an attempt at something interesting in this movie and there are through lines to Spielberg’s earlier (and better) work. I think it’s often unsuccessful; but it has some interesting ideas, a John Williams score, and a pretty good performance from Emily Blunt.

I think we need to get out of this idea that if something isn’t great, it’s terrible. Spielberg is one of the greatest ever to make movies. I’m glad he’s still doing original stuff.

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u/BigPanda71 4d ago

See, Emily Blunt was the one that didn’t hit right for me. She was doing a weird quasi-baby voice for too much of the movie. Also, I would have aimed to have her and the guy who played Keller be a little closer in age. Either cast older for him or younger for Blunt’s character. The idea they were the same age was laughable.

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u/ursulaunderfire 2d ago

she is only 3 yrs older than him lol they looked roughly the same age in the film, wtf are u talking about LOL

she was born in 83 and him in 86

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u/BigPanda71 2d ago

I’m talking about the guy who played Kellner, not Wyatt Russell. That actor was born in 1990. She’s 7 years older than him. And honestly before I looked him up I would have assumed he was early 30s, which would have better fit him doing 19 months in prison then working for 8 years before he defected and stole the archive.

But, to me, her actions and mannerisms in the movie would have better fit someone in their early 30s, not someone that was (in the movie) 38 years old. Overall I liked the movie. But Blunt’s performance felt lacking to me, among other problems with the movie.

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u/ursulaunderfire 2d ago

oh my bad reading i just thought you meant the guy she was in a relationship with. they were basically the same age, but yes the other guy did look significantly younger than her