My son and I went to see Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day last weekend. It was great fun. As many reviewers have noted, there was an air of “Spielberg’s greatest hits” about it, with allusions to Close Encounters of the Third Kind and ET among others, and a spirit of Indiana Jones throughout (lots of chase scenes).
There was some pop theology thrown in there, about the impact the discovery of alien life might have on traditional faith. Most of this fell flat for me. Jonathan Mitchican deals sensitively with these issues in his review in Covenant.
Mostly, though, I ignored the religious aspect and tried to enjoy the movie on its own terms. Emily Blunt is good as always, while Colin Firth is excellent as the heavy who wants to prevent the “disclosure.”
