Steven Spielberg’s latest sci-fi epic, Disclosure Day, is easily one of my biggest disappointments of the year.
When the trailers first dropped, I had a bad feeling about this one. The premise sounded fascinating: what if aliens actually existed, the government had been hiding the truth for decades, and humanity was finally forced to confront that reality? That’s a concept packed with possibilities. How would society react? How would religion react? How would governments respond? What would happen to the world as we know it?
Unfortunately, the movie never really seems interested in exploring any of those questions.
The film plays more like a chase thriller, almost feeling like Enemy of the State meets E.T. meets Minority Report. Josh O’Connor spends much of the movie on the run, Colin Firth fills the role of the shadowy government antagonist, and Emily Blunt’s unsuspecting weather reporter gets pulled into a much larger conspiracy after discovering she has a connection to the mystery at the center of the story.
And make no mistake: Emily Blunt is doing a tremendous amount of heavy lifting here. She is easily the standout of the cast and gives the movie whatever emotional weight it manages to find. Josh O’Connor does solid work as well, but both actors are ultimately fighting an uphill battle against a script that never feels as smart or compelling as its premise.
That’s really the biggest problem. The writing is surprisingly weak. Several supporting characters feel underdeveloped, and some become actively frustrating as the story progresses. The film keeps introducing ideas that sound interesting on paper but never digs beneath the surface.
What makes the disappointment sting even more is that this is Steven Spielberg. You keep waiting for that moment. That big Spielberg moment. The scene that fills you with awe, wonder, excitement, or emotion. There are a few sequences where it feels like the movie is building toward something special, including a UFO reveal heavily featured in the marketing, but the payoff never arrives. Again and again, I found myself waiting for the film to shift into another gear, and it simply never did.
Visually, the movie is perfectly watchable. Spielberg still knows how to stage scenes and move a camera. There are moments where his craftsmanship shines through, and that’s what prevents the film from being a complete disaster. But even some of the visual effects feel strangely underwhelming. It’s hard not to think about Jurassic Park and wonder how the filmmaker who made audiences believe in dinosaurs in 1993 is delivering CGI creatures in 2026 that often look far less convincing.
Even the alien designs themselves feel generic. There’s nothing particularly bad about them, but there’s also nothing memorable. For a movie built around first contact and disclosure, it rarely feels like it’s showing us something we haven’t seen before.
My biggest issue, though, is the ending. The entire movie builds toward humanity learning the truth, yet when it finally arrives at that moment, it feels like the story stops just as the most interesting questions begin. The film asks enormous questions about humanity’s future and then seems content to leave them hanging.
Maybe some viewers will appreciate that ambiguity. For me, it felt incomplete.
I wanted to love this movie. I always want to root for Spielberg. There are flashes of greatness here and moments that remind you why he’s one of the most important filmmakers of all time. But those moments are too few and too far between.
More than anything else, Disclosure Day left me feeling one thing: disappointed. Not angry. Not offended. Just disappointed. And for a summer blockbuster about aliens, government conspiracies, and humanity’s greatest discovery, that’s probably the most damning criticism I can give.
Disclosure Day = 68/100
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