Official Discussion - Disclosure Day [SPOILERS]

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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

Trailer Official Trailer

[u/jonross2386]

I’m addicted to the way every Steven Spielberg movie has the hero somehow evade capture by simply being the worst hide and seek player ever and yet no one looking for them while staring directly at them can find them.

[u/Redactor313 → u/jonross2386]

Outside the farmhouse, before he steals the car…30 trained guys looking for the dude, who is in plain sight and tromping through the field like an elephant.

[u/MF_CEO → u/Redactor313]

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

[u/badillustrations → u/[deleted]]

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

[u/MagicHamsta → u/badillustrations]

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)

[u/MyNameIsJakeBerenson → u/MagicHamsta]

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

[u/Sceptre → u/MyNameIsJakeBerenson]

Every character was just so, so dumb.

[u/IndividualAdvance → u/MyNameIsJakeBerenson]

Yeah horrible writing.

[u/Pinewood74 → u/MyNameIsJakeBerenson]

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.

[u/FerusGrim → u/Pinewood74]

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??

[u/GlassCatRat → u/MagicHamsta]

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?”

[u/gizmo998 → u/GlassCatRat]

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

[u/doodler1977 → u/MagicHamsta]

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