Review: Disclosure Day — A Big Build-Up, a Pretty Good Ride, and a Disappointing Landing
Review: Disclosure Day — A Big Build-Up, a Pretty Good Ride, and a Disappointing Landing By Steve Douglass Disclosure Day came with a mountain of hype. Maybe too much hype. With Steven Spielberg’s name attached, and a subject as loaded as UFO disclosure, expectations were sky-high. That kind of build-up is dangerous, because unless the movie delivers something truly extraordinary, disappointment is almost baked in. Unfortunately, that is pretty much what happened. To be fair, Disclosure Day is not a bad movie. It works as an action yarn. It moves. It has some fun moments. There are a few set pieces that do exactly what they are supposed to do, and Spielberg still knows how to stage tension better than most filmmakers working today. But taken as a Spielberg movie? It falls short. Way short. This is the man who gave us Close Encounters of the Third Kind , E.T. , Jaws , Raiders of the Lost Ark , Jurassic Park , Saving Private Ryan , and Schindler’s List . Spielberg has set ...
