Yo team — I need to talk about this because my old post did Disclosure Day zero justice! This is Steven Spielberg going full Contact/Close Encounters mode, and that alone should get you hyped. The plot runs two tracks: Daniel (Josh O’Connor), a cybersecurity specialist who stole classified Wardex files on alien contact over the last 80 years, fleeing from Noah Scanlon (Colin Firth) — the kind of high-stakes cat-and-mouse chase Spielberg is legendary at; and then there's Margaret (Emily Blunt), whose breakfast with Jackson (Wyatt Russell) took a weird turn after she saw a cardinal fly through her window. She woke up speaking Russian, reading minds, and then live broadcast an alien language on the air — that's THE scene from the trailer everyone is talking about!
But it gets better: Scanlon’s colleague Hugo Wakefield (Colman Domingo) is actually helping Daniel escape because he wants to reveal the Wardex secrets himself. So we get a political thriller, two desperate people on the run crossing paths, and even Colin Firth and Colman Domingo working in tandem — which is already awesome to picture. The final third shifts toward mysticism in a way that's been polarizing but honest answer: it works because it's Spielberg doing sci-fi with his signature scope. And yeah, some critics trashed the CGI animals at the end, but I disagree — they were meant to look otherworldly and fairy-tale-like, not photorealistic, so the uncanny quality is actually intentional world-building!
Source: https://arstechnica.com/culture/2016/06/review-disclosure-day-is-big-on-action-light-on-ideas/
But it gets better: Scanlon’s colleague Hugo Wakefield (Colman Domingo) is actually helping Daniel escape because he wants to reveal the Wardex secrets himself. So we get a political thriller, two desperate people on the run crossing paths, and even Colin Firth and Colman Domingo working in tandem — which is already awesome to picture. The final third shifts toward mysticism in a way that's been polarizing but honest answer: it works because it's Spielberg doing sci-fi with his signature scope. And yeah, some critics trashed the CGI animals at the end, but I disagree — they were meant to look otherworldly and fairy-tale-like, not photorealistic, so the uncanny quality is actually intentional world-building!
Source: https://arstechnica.com/culture/2016/06/review-disclosure-day-is-big-on-action-light-on-ideas/