DISCLOSURE DAY

Steven Spielberg’s DISCLOSURE DAY is a gripping, heart-racing chase thriller about a female TV journalist trying to meet up with a young math whiz who’s carrying stolen, top-secret government videos of outer space aliens, with government agents hot on their trail. DISCLOSURE DAY is one of Spielberg’s more entertaining, accomplished works, with some positive references to God and Christianity mixed with some Non-Christian themes, but it does depict UFOs and UFO aliens as real and contains lots of strong and light action and 15 mostly light obscenities, 19 light profanities, and two strong obscenities and profanities.

The movie opens with the world on the brink of nuclear war between the United States and Russia. A young math whiz named Dr. Daniel Kellner exchanges video proof of aliens and a piece of stolen alien technology for his girlfriend, Jane, who’s been kidnapped by Daniel’s boss, Noah Scanlon. Noah and his agents work for a top-secret government contractor that’s been guarding government secrets about UFOs and aliens for years. However, Daniel stole the videos and the alien device because he discovered that the U.S. military had brutally interrogated two alien creatures who had crash landed. Daniel and some other previous employees under Noah want to expose the videos to the world.

After Jane is freed, Daniel tricks Noah and his men and still has the alien device, which holds some scary power Daniel can use against Noah and his henchmen. He takes back the backpack with the videos and escapes in one of Noah’s black vehicles.

Jane knows nothing about the videos in the backpack or the device Daniel was holding. Daniel asks her if she knows a place where they can hide. Some place he’s never been. She takes them to an old convent run by some nuns. To his surprise, Daniel learns that, before they met, Jane had been a novitiate at the convent but had left because she no longer felt a calling to be a nun. She still wears a cross with rosary beads, however.

Meanwhile, a TV weather lady named Margaret Fairchild has an episode on television where she’s suddenly speaking in a foreign language, then in strange clicks. Then, she faints.

Back at Noah’s headquarters, Margaret’s strange episode gets noticed. Noah and his staff realize that the clicks Margaret was speaking are exactly like the language that the captured aliens spoke. Noah sends some of his agents to the hospital where Margaret is recovering. They pose as FBI agents with the nurses in the outer room.

However, in her hospital room, Margaret tells her boyfriend, Jackson, that the men aren’t FBI agents. How she knows that is a mystery, but she makes Jackson pretend he’s helping her to the restroom. They get their clothes and escape out the back door to her room. Jackson catches her speaking another foreign language as they leave the hospital and escape more of Noah’s agents.

At the convent, Daniel tells Jane he must bring the contents of his backpack to his friend, Hugo, another former employee of Noah. Hugo sends a driver, Santiago, to pick up Daniel. However, Jane refuses to let Daniel go off without her. She hops into the SUV and makes Daniel promise to tell her what’s happening when they get to their destination.

Santiago drops them off at a cabin near some woods. There, Daniel shows Jane some of the alien videos showing UFOs, crashed alien spacecraft and videos of the military with captured and injured aliens.

Cut to Margaret telling Jackson that she must find a man named Daniel Kellner. She tells Jackson that she feels she needs to head north. Jackson enters a roadside store to get some drinks and snacks. Inside, however, he calls the authorities about her because he thinks she’s still suffering from injuries from her collapse. While he’s gone, Margaret gives a message to a little boy to tell Jackson and drives away in their red car without him.

After showing the videos to Jane, Daniel goes outside to call Hugo with a special satellite phone. Inside the cabin, Noah suddenly appears to Jane. At his headquarters, he’s using another one of the alien devices to communicate with her and hypnotize her into revealing her location. He also tells her that he needs her help to stop Daniel. Using the alien tech, he hypnotizes her into hiding a butcher knife in her sleeve. She tries to free herself from the hypnosis by stabbing her left hand with the cross she’s wearing.

The suspense and action builds as Noah and his men locate Daniel and Jane and follow Margaret, who’s heading toward the cabin in her red car. Will Jane stab Daniel? Will Noah capture Daniel and Margaret and retrieve the videos Daniel stole?

Steven Spielberg’s DISCLOSURE DAY is a gripping, heart-racing, well-acted chase thriller. The movie is one of Spielberg’s most exciting, accomplished movies. The thrills and suspense come with his trademark, heartfelt visual displays of science fiction signs and wonders.

DISCLOSURE DAY has some positive references to God and Christianity. At one point, the Mother Superior at the convent where Jane lived, when asked about the possible visitation of Earth by aliens from outer space, says that this wouldn’t change the Christian church’s teaching about God or salvation. That said, the movie clearly comes down on the side that aliens from outer space have been visiting Earth in recent years. However, the movie avoids saying what message, if any, the aliens are sending, other than the message not to be afraid, which is the translation of what the weather lady said in the beginning of the movie. This ending seems like a cop out, because it avoids the possibility of alienating many people in your audience who may not like the answer your movie presents, but perhaps that’s the better part of valor. However, as MOVIEGUIDE®’s box office statistics demonstrate every year, filmmakers can’t go wrong if they make a movie that delivers a strong Christian message with morally uplifting, biblical values.

DISCLOSURE DAY also has some Romantic content where people place their feelings above their rational faculties. However, the Daniel character is a math whiz, and the movie seems to value such head knowledge. In fact, a line of dialogue in the movie overtly says that the universe is built upon mathematical laws. Of course, as the Christian, biblical concept of God has proven, God is the greatest mathematician of all, because His Creation is built upon non-physical, eternal mathematical laws.

The movie also has a humanist line of dialogue saying that empathy is a learned evolutionary trait instead of an essential part of God’s character that He passes down to mankind, who God made in His image. It’s only one line, so it’s not as strong as the movie’s positive Christian references.

Furthermore, in the movie, the aliens have somehow imbued Margaret with the ability to read people’s minds and know everything about their past. She uses this ability several times to overcome people who may try to stop her from reaching Daniel. She also uses it to escape from being captured by Noah and his agents. It’s almost as if the aliens have given her God-like powers of omniscience.

Thus, when all is said and done, DISCLOSURE DAY seems to have a mixed pagan worldview with Christian, Romantic and humanist content. It also has 16 obscenities, including multiple “h” and “s” words and one “f” word. DISCLOSURE DAY also has one GD profanity and 19 light exclamatory profanities referring to God. So, MOVIEGUIDE® advises extreme caution.

Many Christians believe aliens in UFOs are demons, but how do you explain the apparent physical nature of their flying machines? Other Christians take the position of the nun in the movie, that any intelligent aliens that humans might encounter here on Earth or out in space are also creations of God. Of course, any of these aliens may also be agents of God or agents of the Devil, just like human beings on Earth. To that end, it’s been observed by many people that many, if not most, alleged encounters with extraterrestrial aliens involve occult phenomenon.. Also, many believers in aliens from outer space and many people who claim to have encountered alien beings express false Non-Christian beliefs, including false Eastern mysticism or New Age philosophies. So, there’s something to be said for demonic theories of UFOs.