I went to my local cinema to see the newest Steven Spielberg movie, Disclosure Day. I hadn’t heard of it till a few days ago. But I enjoy SF films and Steven Spielberg is a director I respect. And the score is by John Williams. The music isn’t his usual symphonic type, though I hear it was done on purpose.
There is a lot of action, with cars zooming along, attempts to kill the main characters, but there is much more to it than that.
Two couples, Margaret and her boyfriend Jackson, Daniel and his girlfriend Jane, are on the run and being chased by government agents led by villain Noah Scanlon, who is after a piece of alien technology Daniel has stolen with the intention of showing it and some vital videos to the world. Literally. The films have been there since Roswell in the 1940s. The aliens were not invaders and interrogators have tortured them, all there in the films. As a result, there is some alien technology controlled by Wardex, the agency led by Scanlon, who uses it to find and communicate with Jane and others.
Margaret, a meteorologist working for a TV station, finds herself, the day before the main story, with powers she hadn’t known she had. She and Daniel, when they meet, feel as if they have met, but don’t know how or when.
Any more and there will be spoilers so that’s as far as I can go, but it’s well worth watching. Interesting that the villain - who thinks he is the good guy - is played by Colin Firth, who, in his time, was the sexiest Mr Darcy.
He is the only actor allowed to use his British accent, but there are others who have to be American for the film. Daniel is played by English actor Josh O’Connor. Emily Blunt plays Margaret. You might have seen her before, as Mary Poppins. Eve Hewson, who plays as Jane, is Irish, the daughter of U2 singer Bono.
I enjoyed it very much. I hope you do too.
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