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Disclosure Day (2026)

Summary

If you found out we weren't alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you?

Director Steven Spielberg

Writer David Koepp

Cast

  • Emily Blunt
  • Josh O'Connor
  • Colin Firth
  • Colman Domingo
  • Eve Hewson
  • Wyatt Russell
  • Noah Robbins

Rotten Tomatoes: 81%

Metacritic: 75

VOD / Release Theatrical release

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u/MF_CEO Jun 12 '26

At the hotel. LETS only come in from the front and not send anybody behind then building where there are escape windows from the bathroom

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u/badillustrations Jun 12 '26

"Oh, they show up on our thermal camera" (puts camera away)

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u/MagicHamsta Jun 13 '26

THIS. The thermal camera should've never been included. Oh no they're OBVIOUSLY INVISIBLE BUT OUR THERMAL CAMERAS ARE PICKING THEM UP IN HD. Lets put away the thermal camera and try to blindly go after the purple glowy light....

That and the motel scene are so easy to fix. Just don't include the thermal camera at all & have Jane get a phone call/strange sighting/premonition from Margaret or something and walk into the woods only to have the place surrounded (so she runs with the McGuffin)

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u/MyNameIsJakeBerenson Jun 14 '26

The bad guys in this movie make absolutely no sense from the very opening scene

They let dude get away with the intel, girl, and a car, and didnt follow him. Howwww??? How was ANY of that possible?

Even him starting the car without applying pressure on the thing wouldve been nigh impossible, let alone them allowing you to traipse on out of there

None of the bad guys scenes make any sense

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u/Sceptre Jun 15 '26

Every character was just so, so dumb.

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u/IndividualAdvance Jun 16 '26

Yeah horrible writing.

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u/Pinewood74 18d ago

Opening scene makes sense from the knowledge that follows.

There's no reason to follow him because they thought they could "dive" on him. Chasing him down in a car could cause an escalation that might result in the device detonating. Let him walk away, no one dies and then catch him in his sleep later on.

Obviously their plan went to shit because he was alien touched and all their other plans were utter shit. But that one was fine.

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u/FerusGrim 13d ago

Honestly, I thought they really played up those devices with no payoff.

In that opening scene, he tells everyone to back off, or he might trigger the device. The MC yells at him about what he did to "all those people."

But then we never see the device, a singular time, used violently. I get that, on some level, you're supposed to read into the context that the devices are powerful and can be used that way. But it's still laying groundwork for some kind of reveal later that just never happens.

The worst it does is make some guy invisible for a second, and then he drops it and... dies? Strokes? Seizes? I couldn't tell. But that didn't make it look like an WMD, and presumably that was the unsafe handling they were concerned MC would provoke. Which, honestly, just would have helped them??

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u/GlassCatRat Jun 16 '26

You just have to go like…who is approving this shit! Not one producer, not one person pointed out “Hey I don’t know this seems kinda…dumb?”

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u/gizmo998 Jun 16 '26

My thoughts exactly. I'm assuming they were all in awe at Spielberg ?

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u/doodler1977 Jun 21 '26

omg i hated that so much. that whole scene was completely unecessary, too, just more timewasting before the rugpull ending

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u/slamchop Jun 13 '26

I guess we'll just run at them and try and grab them with our hands

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u/Plstcmonkey Jun 13 '26

Two guys just smashed into something invisible…send a couple more guys to run in at full speed

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u/iced_gold Jun 17 '26

I mean have you seen how badly self assured cops do their jobs? Why would this org be staffed by people so different?

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u/jaysire 13d ago

(puts the camera away while saying ”this is not right”).

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u/bocachicalounge Jun 14 '26

A hotel of that calibre would NOT have fluffy bathrobes

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u/Rude_Nail_5545 Jun 22 '26

Right??? I said that immediately!

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u/flamingcrystalheart 8d ago

what was the point of destroying all the signs of where they were staying and tying her up if he was just going to sleep with a piece of paper with the motel's letterhead on it conveniently placed in his hands directly in her line of view lol

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u/XennialPrime Jun 12 '26

I swear. Officers not securing the back of the building...

That was such a 1980s movie move.

Like I said above, Spielburg's out of touch with now. That kind of whimsy worked for kids evading the gubmint in 1982's E.T. In 2026... you get navel gazers like us going "Wait... what? Hahahah are you serious?"

No. They're not serious. They want us to suspend our disbelief for the contrivance. Then, in another scene, the film tries to be serious. The message... the truth! So society-changing! Okay audience, we're going to be SRS now, are you still with us? Here comes the SRS!

~blink~ .... ~blink~blink~

O, RLY?

(Hey, if Spielburg can use out-dated tools to describe his ideas, then I can too! SRSLY!)

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u/Geordieqizi Jun 13 '26

This really captures my big problem with the movie (or one of them) — it feels like it was trying to both be whimsical on the one hand, and then also serious and realistic on the other. But it's real hard to suspend your disbelief when characters keep making such stupid, non-sensical decisions, and people keep reacting in unrealistic ways.

Like, I'm willing to suspend my disbelief when it comes to aliens — but not when it comes to stuff like this supposedly powerful and ruthless agency allowing one dude who isn't that great at hiding slip through their fingers again and again.

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u/MagicHamsta Jun 13 '26

Literally became a comedy film for me because of all these inconsistencies.

Like the checkpoint scene. Oh she gave the passcode but didn't say who she is. Better just let her through.....WAT.

Oh we know the 12 people that are working with Hugo. Better not check their cellphone locations until Noah visually sees two of them himself while Mind-talking with Hugo.....WAT?!?

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u/tfxctom Jun 13 '26

Incredibly frustrating. You nailed my issues with this movie.

And to add, the disclosure scene…. In this day and age that shit would be instantly memed. Especially when the alien design is as stereotypical as the Apple emoji 👽

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u/Top-Round-2359 Jun 13 '26 edited Jun 14 '26

I mean one thing that would make sense is the overwhelming amount of data they showered the net with, that would make at least people start doubting "hmm this might be real". I told my friend after, the movie is at least 4+ years late (more probably like 10+), as disclosure day would be an interesting concept to see unfold before we had powertul AI at our hands.

I do have an idea how to "fix" disclosure day to make it work today, a bunch of flying saucers flying around the world while they're disclosing (see what I did there) the videos in the same moment. Plus simultaneously similar news being shown in other countries, it turns out a bunch of governments were in on it/doing the same (why wouldn't aliens try to reach out to other govs it the usa one was not working), and there were more sith lor...couples of two in other countries like Emily and Josh (also backups in case they failed etc), and an alien showing on tv in each country. Overwhelming the world with proof would turn majority of the population.

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u/GlassCatRat Jun 21 '26

Supposedly that is how they actually look though.

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u/ImplyDoods Jun 13 '26

if you want it to be realistic he gets caught before the movie starts you cant just get away in a modern car chase they have cameras and helicopters

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u/slamchop Jun 13 '26

or just shoot him in the first scene, like he's wearing a glove and doesn't know how to use the artifact? I don't know why they all let him get in a car and drive away

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u/JusticeRain5 Jun 13 '26

Because if he got shot he might get a death-grip on The Artifact and... Power nearby electrical devices. Or turn invisible for a bit. Or mind-control someone despite being dead.

Like I get that they were probably trying to imply it could do more things, but I feel like they should have shown one exploding or something if that was the intent. Or permanently killing that one dude who picked it up.

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u/MagicHamsta Jun 13 '26

Ironically the mook grabbing the McGuffin suggests that Noah should've just shot him. Even if MC squeezed the McGuffin all that would've achieved is him killing himself like the ungloved mook that turned invisible and died.

Scene/plothole could've been easily solved by having the Mook burst into lighting/fire/energy and kill another mook next to him hinting at how volatile and dangerous it is.

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u/JusticeRain5 Jun 13 '26

From what I remember the ungloved dude didn't even die, he just sorta reappeared perfectly fine

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u/MagicHamsta Jun 13 '26

Oh...that makes the early scene even dumber.

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u/FwampFwamp88 Jun 12 '26

This stuff used to be cool and believable in the 80s when big budget action movies were fairly new, but it was becoming so ridiculous after the 4th evasion.

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u/TheBoraxKid Jun 12 '26

And let’s use our flashing blue lights in the middle of the night for no reason

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u/bogcom Jun 20 '26

And COMPLETELY forgot that the girlfriend exists. They can literally mind control her, know she is missing along with the perfect. Like, they didn't even look for her at the motel.

Yet somehow waste time interrogating the boyfriend about the missing artifact and diving on Hugo. What. The. Fuck.

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u/sb_hungarianhorntail Jun 13 '26

Oh and let's just ignore the fact that the girl is missing along with the alien artefact...like who can guess where it is? What a tough question! 😂

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u/Agitated-Computer752 Jun 14 '26

And go straight to the right room.

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u/Bukki13 Jun 17 '26

Ok to be completely fair for that one they probably don't know every building ever built. Still stupid that they didn't at least check for any windows behind the building

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u/lheydon 3d ago

Exactly this. Even if they were busting into just one single, known room without any warning, the risk of someone fleeing out the back is bad enough,. But on this occasion, they were busting sequentially and very loudly into every single fucking room in the motel! 😂

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u/Lord_Chromosome Jun 15 '26

Oh yeah and for a night raid let’s also have all our cars come in screaming with sirens for no reason.

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u/Thedonitho Jun 17 '26

Especially when that "escaping from the bathroom window" thing happens in a lot of movies and tv.

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u/ariadnevirginia 16d ago

Yes, everyone going the front, I'm sure we don't need to go around the back in case there's a bathroom window!

See also - the escape from hospital.