Spielberg, movie review and Disclosure Day
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DISCLOSURE DAY (12A) 145mins ★★☆☆☆ THIS offering from the mighty Steven Spielberg feels a far cry from such blockbusters as Jurassic Park and Jaws. Punctured with plot holes, overcomplicated
War of the Worlds was an obvious and devastating response to the carnage of 9/11, updating the classic novel to a modern-day depiction of a society coming undone in the face of an apocalyptic alien invasion.
Steven Spielberg’s fourth film about alien encounters is “Disclosure Day,” following “ET: The Extra-Terrestrial,” “War of the Worlds,” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” That inspired us to take another look at what Roger Ebert thought about some of the most famous and infamous alien movies,
Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi thriller Disclosure Day opens this weekend with domestic forecasts ranging from $40 million to $55 million. That would mark a solid start, though not quite the kind of splash Universal Pictures may have hoped for in a year when The Super Mario Galaxy Movie opened to $131.
