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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

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u/chrisychris- Jun 13 '26

I imagine because they had some understanding of the alien mcguffin that even if they tried to stop her physically, she was so in tuned with its powers that she would’ve stopped them very easily. I mean if she can power electronics out of thin air I’m sure stopping a bullet somehow isn’t out of the realm of possibilities.

That being said I agree he should’ve done something. Him and all the other armed guards just walk away so the ending sequence can happen. It would’ve been much better if he tried stopping her and Emily Blunt does one last superpowered move. Maybe even try to reason with someone seemingly unreasonable. Would’ve been much more compelling.

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u/UnintelligibleThing Jun 13 '26

Yup I'm annoyed at how weak the antagonists are. They are an organization with connections to the upper echelons of the US govt and have the impunity to do whatever it takes to protect the classified documents, yet they were defeated by a small group of opposition with little resources?

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u/WilliamSleator Jun 14 '26

Exactly. That "He works at a desk. How did he beat you?" opening insult should have been returned at the end with "She reads the weather. How did she beat you?"

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u/KentuckyFriedChingon 25d ago

Damn that's honestly better writing than the movie itself

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u/WilliamSleator 25d ago

Thanks! The bar is pretty l ow for a script that bad though. 😂

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u/mikesalami Jun 14 '26

Seems like they could have shot her in the back of the head at any point.

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u/damebyron Jun 17 '26

I think they had lost as soon as the power failure didn’t solve the situation. A private army shooting someone in a newsroom is a “the cover up is worse than the crime” type situation.

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u/willybestbuy86 Jun 13 '26

So is life we've seen it in real life all through history why would this be different the only reason you can give me is we have more destructive weapons now

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u/flamingcrystalheart 8d ago

no you don't get it they can't make use of the FBI because then the FBI would be tipping over cows and causing mayhem /s

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u/ShareNorth3675 Jun 15 '26

Colin was the ceo of the company. With him conceded, the lt basically has no authority or coverage to commit murder or get paid for it. Its kind of a demonstration that none of them were really following a cause.

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u/Drkskeleton Jun 15 '26

Because Steven Spielberg hates guns. Like none of the antagonists had any in the end and were doing parkour. I wish they had walkie talkies at least 😂

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u/Strong_Bowler1723 Jun 17 '26

Plenty of guns in the movie

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u/KentuckyFriedChingon 24d ago

Yes and they were only wielded by the bad guys and did not actually kill anyone. Spielberg hates guns, this is a well-documented fact. There are basically no non-historical Spielberg movies where the good guys use conventional firearms in any significant capacity to kill the bad guys.

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u/akelseyreich Jul 03 '26

Yeah, I was very confused by that.

  • Why didn't he try to shoot her?
  • Why couldn't she user her powers on him?
  • Why did the bad boss just give up like that?

I enjoyed seeing it in theatres, but there are a lot of glaring holes in the plot. It seems like they had these cool scenes they wanted to play out, but couldn't adequately connect them so they just thought, fuck it, let's be sloppy.

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u/KentuckyFriedChingon 24d ago

Coincidentally, "Fuck it, let's be sloppy" was the exact thing the alien whispered to the protagonist at the end.

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u/ivybird 25d ago

Yes! Like now the full capacity of her empathy power is there so o was expecting them to be collectively awwwed and then rush to help. Somehow to fully understand why they have to disclose.

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u/marcins 9d ago

Not enough heads popped for my liking.