By Alice Preputnick; Photo Credits to Alice Preputnick
One of my favorite actors is Josh O’Connor. I’ve seen almost all of the movies he’s acted in, and it’s safe to say that although he has been in some of my favorite movies, he’s also been in some of my least favorite; “Disclosure Day” being one of the worst movies I have ever seen.
Directed by Steven Spielberg, the 2026 film “Disclosure Day” follows Daniel Kellner, played by Josh O’Connor, and Margret Fairchild, played by Emily Blunt, as they try to reveal the truth about extra-terrestrial life that the government has tried to cover up.
Now, after seeing the trailers for this movie, I had very, very low expectations. And at multiple points during this movie, I wanted to walk out. The entire production was a waste of everyone’s time: the writers, actors, filming crews, and audiences.
This movie had Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor, Colin Firth, and Coleman Domingo as the star actors. How do you have this all-star cast and not even they can save this dumpster fire of a movie? This movie is an insult to their talent. All of their performances were standard at best and were honestly overshadowed by the terrible writing and plot structure. Colin Firth was great, but his character was so poorly written and made the stupidest decisions that it didn’t even matter whether Firth’s acting was any good because not even good acting could save the character he was playing.
The writing for this movie is laughable. I actually could not stop turning to my friend during the movie and rolling my eyes whenever the characters did anything. At multiple points, I was thinking “how is this the final script?” Every time Emily Blunt’s character showed up on screen, the movie spent way too long showing off her ‘powers’. The scene when she walks out of the trailer after being kidnapped, we spend a minute and a half watching the people who were supposedly trying to detain her, look into her face and see someone they love and forget all about their plan to hold her hostage. This type of sequence was then done another time and was just as long and out of place as the first one.
The characters in this movie are on the run from the government, but it actually feels like they are on the run from a group of 5-year-olds because of how easily they are able to get away every single time they are tracked down. I mean, it is just ridiculous how easily these characters can escape them. There is a scene in this movie where a character who is being chased by the government is able to sneak out the back window of a motel room and hide behind a tree 10 feet away and not be found by the government that is actively searching the premises. I guess common sense and protocol also went out the window and hid behind the tree with this character, because why would they not check there? They knew there were two people in the motel room because the one that escaped is the whole reason they are there in the first place, so why would you not notice the very clearly opened window and think, “hey, let’s check this out to find the other person who just conveniently disappeared.”
“Disclosure Day” had some of the worst looking shots I have ever seen in a movie. The entire thing looked like it was shot for a commercial. Every time a car was on screen, the movie suddenly became an ad for Dodge Chargers. When it is revealed what happened to Blunt and O’Connor’s characters, this movie completely switches from live action to CGI. When the younger version of Blunt’s character is following the animals into the house in the woods, it genuinely looks like a deleted scene from “The Polar Express;” I’m not even kidding.
I really try to see the positive in every movie I watch, but there just isn’t one for “Disclosure Day”. The overall plot was outdated, nothing the characters did was logical, and the story didn’t end up saying anything of substance. It’s just another generic alien movie that will be lost in time.