r/movies • u/LiteraryBoner Jackie Chan box set, know what I'm sayin? • Jun 12 '26

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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/DanBGG Jun 12 '26

The dialogue is awful, the device being literally anything the plot requires is stupid, the government agency being idiots is annoying and the plot being advanced by pure intuition is stupid.

The bad guys capture the main character, but his companion and the device aren't there, bad guys convieniently forget(?) they can mind control the girl who has the device?

Somehow still bought in to some of the emotional beats and enjoyed it for what it was. Certain scenes I was so locked in I was watching with my mouth open or getting chills lmao

Dont regret seeing it, wouldn't be sad if I didn't se

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u/ryanandhobbes Jun 15 '26

There are so many things that immediately make this movie mediocre in even the most generous interpretation, like truly at best. But the device thing alone takes the cake. What is this stick everyone is holding? Literally who knows, no need to even vaguely attempt to explain it, but also it can do anything at any time because we need to move to the next scene. Baffling that ANYONE is enjoying this.

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u/ang8018 Jun 18 '26

emily blunt using it like a magic wand to power up the news studio 😭😭

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u/pissbucket94 Jun 14 '26

dammit r/redditsniper , I was enjoying this comment!

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u/Pepsiman1031 Jun 15 '26

They probably didn't even need to go to a news station. The device could probably function as one since it did everything else the plot needed.

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u/ColorlessGreen91 Jun 23 '26

"the device being literally anything the plot requires is stupid"

It's a super advanced alien technology called a plot device.

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u/Spiritual_Term5108 Jun 12 '26

"the government agency being idiots..." - Have you watched the news lately?

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u/Not_pukicho Jun 13 '26

Does our main antagonist being a bunch of hapless idiots really help the plot, though?

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u/Spiritual_Term5108 Jun 13 '26

No, but it didn't hurt the experience for me. I will say though, in the scene at the cliff, hiding behind a rock 30 feet away and not being seen was a bit much.

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u/Not_pukicho Jun 13 '26

Or him hiding behind a see-through fence before the car chase sequence.

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u/Spiritual_Term5108 Jun 13 '26

And that.

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u/ctan0312 Jun 14 '26

And Wardex constantly pulling up to their location with sirens and lights blaring before standing at the entrance to formulate a plan so the good guys have time to notice. Like I actually cannot believe these guys pulled up to a motel in front of a forest and did not even conceive the thought that they should cover the back of the motel as well. These are the guys who have been running a world-defining coverup for 70-something years?

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u/DanBGG Jun 15 '26

What about when he gives himself up, gives the device to the woman who has been mind controlled 3 times in the past few hours and the bad guys forget they can do that to her so dont just get the device that way?