Film: Disclosure Day

It may be sci-fi, but the humans still need to make sense, and I had a problem with the script on that front. Why does the girl go along for the ride when clearly facing danger? However, I'm unable to criticise as it's a Spielberg film, and the premise is brilliant. It's generally disconcerting seeing Colin Firth as the bad guy, though.

It's one of the most trailed films of the year, so we already know something strange starts to happen and that we're meant to wonder if others are present among us. The proof comes in odd places. A weather presenter (Emily Blunt) suddenly finds she can speak Korean, while a cyber security expert is tasked with holding onto all the evidence proving the US government has been covering up not just an alien arrival, but something far more distressing: that those aliens were tortured and experimented on. Spielberg's vision is, naturally, ET-cute. But this is no ET.

I loved the aliens. I loved even more the idea of waking up one day, suddenly multilingual. Now that's a superpower I'd like.

7/10

Would have been 8 if the script hadn’t irritated at times