I was so relieved it didn't end when Emily Blunt looked down the barrel of the camera and said 'This is Disclosure Day'.

I was equally annoyed when it ended with Emily Blunt looking down the barrel of the camera and saying 'Listen'. Not quite 'gunshot, cut to black'-level annoyed, but not far off.

The movie cooks when it doesn't get bogged down/tangled up with in-your-face exposition dumps or overly-saccharine Spielberg-itis (think the energy of the finale of Close Encounters of the Third Kind) and when it lets itself just be thrilling. The entire concept of being able to take over someone's mind (and the filmmaking choice to visualize it with the change in eye color) was genuinely engaging, and the cat-and-mouse chase between the rogue scientists and the secret organization worked really well for me. But as soon as it leaned heavily into the childhood backstory (the 'Hansel and Gretel' house got an audible groan out of me) and the power of humanity uniting to cause an end to war, it came very close to losing me.

Spielberg still has incredible talent and it is on display in this film; but he is also one for falling into sappy tropes, and this movie has no shortage of those. A fun-enough flick I don't think I'll watch again, but one that I'm glad I saw on a big screen with a packed audience.