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I was disappointed, and that makes me sad. This brings me no pleasure because the reality is I'm a Spielberg fanboy, particularly his work in the 70s and 80s, but even some of his movies in the 2000s. Some of my favorite movies of all time, everything from Jaws to Raiders. Everything from ET Which I watch with my kids over the weekend and is magic, to Minority Report. I love a lot of Spielberg's work, and this is taking him back home to what should be fertile ground for him. Every Alien movie that he's ever done has been really, really interesting. This one just fails on the merits. I wish it did not. Now, if you've seen the advertising campaign for Disclosure Day, the basic idea is that now it will be disclosed, it's in the name to everyone on Earth, that aliens exist and are present on planet Earth. And so you think of that as the premise of the film, like, what happens next. The problem is that that is the end of the film. So the entire film is the lead up to the disclosure, which is, frankly, somewhat irritating because the entire premise of the trailer of the film is what happens after we find out the aliens are real? What happens when the Earth finds this out? We had a bunch of movies from Spielberg about the journey to the understanding that aliens are real by individuals, but you've never seen a society wide understanding of the thing. You have Close Encounters of the Third Kind where you have Richard Dreyfus playing the guy who becomes obsessed with the alien landings. And of course, you've had E.T. where a child's life is changed by E.T. landing on Earth. But you've never had the sort of what would happen in all of society if we just found out that aliens were real. We had War of the World that was about an alien invasion. Bit different. Okay, so that was sort of the promise, and it just is never really delivered upon. Instead, the movie focuses on two characters. Emily Blunt, who plays Margaret Fairchild, a Kansas City TV meteorologist and former journalist, and Josh o' Connor as a guy named Daniel Kellner, who's a young cybersecurity expert and a whistleblower who has a bunch of data that shows tape going back 80 years, video of aliens on Earth. The person who is charged with stopping them is Colin Firth, who plays Noah Scanlon, the head of what's called the Wardex Corporation, which, again, I'm not Sure. Why? It's not just a government branch or agency. For some reason, it has to be private industry. They try to. I suppose they do this because at one point his justification for trying to stop the information from coming out is questioned. And it's very weird because he is told that he is trying to stop it for wealth and power, which, again, I'm not sure how you get wealthy or powerful by keeping aliens a secret, but that's sort of thrown out there. And that's sort of the problem. The screenplay is the problem. The direction is not the problem. There are a couple of very kinetic chase scenes that are excellent. There's one scene in particular that involves a car and a couple of trains, and that is really well filmed. The problem is the script. The problem is the central idea. And again, I think that Spielberg is playing at a couple of interesting ideas here. The most interesting idea is sort of, how does religion deal with the possibility of alien life forms? And to his credit, Spielberg treats that with respect. So one of the characters in the movie is Jaden Blankenship, who's Danielle Kellner's girlfriend, played by Eve Hewson. She's a former nun. And so at the beginning of the film, she ends up at a monastery where she used to work. And she is speaking with an older nun and she talks about what would religion do if faced with the possibility of alien life forms. And the nun informs her properly that if you read Genesis, it does not say that there are no alien life forms. It says that on this planet, here's how God created Earth. It doesn't say how God created other planets or what happened on those other planets or anything like that, which, of course, is true. The Bible is sort of a blank when it comes to the possibility of life forms on other planets. The big problem is that the central conflict is never fully played out. So if the central conflict is, should people know or should people not? If that's the central conflict, you actually have to play that out ideologically in the script. You have to make the case for why people would not handle this well. And it's dismissed fairly early on and then never really taken up in a serious way. And so what you end up with at the end of the film is Colin Firth's Noah Scanlon basically giving up the ghost and sitting there as all of the data is revealed. Now, there are a bunch of other problems that I think can be chalked up to the fact that Steven Spielberg is in his late 70s and I'm not sure he understands the modern Media age. The entire film centers around the question of whether Emily Blunt's Margaret Fairchild can get back to her local TV station and have it networked in with the network in order to reveal the tape. And so they're all running back to the news station and she must go on air. And you have the bad guys who are trying to cut the power to the station and none of it plays. And the reason none of it plays is because we all have a thing called the Interweb and we all have phones and we can upload anything we want at any time. Maybe this makes sense if the movie is made in 1985 or if he had said it in 1985, but instead he said it in modern day. I mean, everyone is watching on their phone, the BBC or cnn. Only somebody who consumes an awful lot of broadcast media believes that the way that you disseminate news in this day and age is first on CNN or first on an affiliate news network or first on the BBC. That is not how any of it works. So perhaps the government is keeping secrets from you. Data, secret data. They won't tell it to you. But here's the thing. Your data is actually not the government's business and it's not the public's business. It is your business. And that's one reason I use ExpressVPN. ExpressVPN creates an encrypted tunnel for your Internet traffic, helping keep your online activity private from Internet providers, advertisers and other third parties. And because it lets you change your online location, it can also help you access content from different regions within when you're traveling or when content isn't available where you are. I use ExpressVPN because it's simple. I turn it on, it runs in the background. I don't have to think about it again. One of the features that really comes in handy is being able to change my online location. When I'm traveling overseas. There are times I want to watch a show or access content. It's only available in the US ExpressVPN lets me connect through a US server so I can access the content I normally watch at home. I use it because it's simple. I turn it on, it works. I don't have to think about it again. The Internet may be obsessed with everybody else's business. That doesn't mean that everybody needs access to yours. Find out how you can get up to four extra months by scanning the QR code code on screen, clicking the link in the description box below, or by going to expressvpn.com benyt that's expressvpn.com Ben YT and so there are a bunch of plot holes that can be chalked up to this bizarre situation in which I guess you have to use means of old traditional media to get out information. But, you know, you put that aside. The fundamental premise of the film, I think, is also flawed. So again, the question is, what happens to humanity when they find out there are aliens? And that could be a really interesting premise for a film. Some people react truly horribly because they say, who are these aliens? Are they here for good or evil? And some people say, well, they're here for good, but maybe they know too much, maybe they're too powerful. There's all sorts of interesting things you could play with with that none of that is dealt with. Instead, the revelation of the aliens on Earth happens in the last 10 minutes of the movie. And it is treated as a universal peacemaker. Basically every human on Earth. There's a geopolitical crisis that's supposedly playing out in the background and everyone starts ignoring the possibility of nuclear war because they are so fascinated by the alien footage. And the alien footage is, to put it mildly, somewhat uninspiring. There's a point where a newscaster is on the TV covering this new released disclosure, the alien footage, and crying on the air because there are pictures of these aliens who had crash landed in a spaceship and their bodies are kind of half blown up. Is that really how a newscaster would react to alien bodies? Again, there's just a sort of bizarre disconnect from the world of reality that is evident in the film. And again, I think you can chalk it up to maybe Spielberg's age and the fact that he's working in a 1985 context in this arena. But also the notion that humanity would suddenly just treat this as an ultimate good is very weird. It's very weird. The movie literally ends with an actual alien who's been held by the people who are trying to help out. Margaret Fairchild, Emily Blunt's character, and Josh o' Connor's Daniel Kellner kind of find themselves and they're supposed to usher the alien into the world, but apparently they've had this alien on ice for like 25 years. And the alien comes out and you're waiting to hear what the alien is gonna have to say that's gonna change the world. And you never get to hear it. They cut to black. So the big message doesn't. I suppose the big message is supposed to be empathy, which again, is Not a big message. The big message is that the aliens picked Margaret as a child and appear to have terrorized her. Because it turns out that being abducted into the forest and then given bizarre treatments by aliens that might screw you up a little bit. They also did the same to Josh o'. Connor. The idea was that they implanted in Josh o' Connor his Daniel Kellner, the ability to speak alien language. And in Margaret, they basically identified a very empathetic child who they made more empathetic and the repository of empathy for all humans. And together, communication and empathy are the message. Ok, I'm not sure how an alien landing makes that happen. I'm not sure how it's actually necessarily the best. It assumes something on behalf of humanity that I think is not in evidence, which is that if we all just talk to each other and if we're all just empathetic to one another on the most personal, individual level, that all the world's problems are healed. And I'm pretty sure all the world's problems are not healed, which again, would be an interesting basis for a movie. But that is not this movie. And so what you end up with is basically two hours of chase. That feels pretty low stakes. Beyond that, there are a couple of cheat codes that are being used by the writer in order for Colin Firth to be able to be involved in the movie at all. He's using basically a magic wand. It's kind of an alien magic wand that allows him to talk with the people he's tracing. This magic wand also allows you to become invisible because the movie can't decide whether it wants to be very, very self serious or humorous. None of the sort of humorous moments land. And so overall it just feels discombobulated. Again, I think there are interesting moments. I think the chase scenes are filmed beautifully. I think Spielberg's an amazing filmmaker, but I think that it's all in service to ideas that can't stand up under any sort of scrutiny. And again, I think that the promise that audiences are gonna feel about the trailer, which is what happens when the aliens come, that is not what this movie is about. This movie is supposed to be about the discovery by Emily Blunt of what happened to her when she was 10, which again doesn't feel super transformative or by Josh O' Connor as to what happened to him when he was 10, but because you know from the get go that they're going to reveal the information and you don't really get a good justification as why the people trying to stop them from revealing the information are trying to stop them it all just feels really weak it feels very pastiche and it makes me sad because even the things that I was looking forward to, right? Like a great score from John Williams this is. I love John Williams, okay Like John Williams is the greatest film scorer ever I've come to this conclusion after long and careful study I play his scores in the car for my kids they can identify all of his scores from the first three notes this score is uninspired There really is nothing there to grab onto in terms of the score the acting is actually overwrought which which I think is a result of again the fact that the screenplay is weak Again I regret to inform you that this movie on a scale of like one to five stars this is like a two maybe a two and a half and that is not because of animus for the film I really, really wanted to like it but there's just no there there and that's kind of.