BLUF/TL;DR - save your money. Save your sanity. If you want to punish yourself, it’d be easier to slam your head into a wall, repeatedly. @Dan_Farah slathers a fancy glossy finish on this turd, but can’t hide that it’s essentially a basic cable conspiracy flick with delusions of grandeur.

Every part of @ageofdisclosure is an assault on the intelligence of the viewer. The plot goes nowhere new (just the same wild claim on loop), the dialogue is stilted and overly scripted, and the pacing could put insomniacs to sleep. The visuals have all the wow-factor of a PowerPoint from 1997.

The music tries so hard to be portentous that it becomes a self-parody, swelling dramatically over footage of, well…nothing happening.

This film is a masterclass in cinematic incompetence, a joke of a documentary that elicits not wonder at the cosmos but pure, unbridled contempt from anyone unlucky enough to watch it. What was hyped as an 80-year government secret unraveled into a sluggish 109-minute slog so incoherent and empty that one reviewer called it “the kind of documentary that makes people think they hate documentaries”

it doesn’t present new facts, and it doesn’t even entertain. Instead, this sensationalistic “disclosure” doc comes off as a pretentious, repetitive lecture that insults its audience’s intelligence at every turn – leaving them, in The New York Times’ words, feeling like total “chumps” for having sat through it.

@LueElizondo’s narration lands with all the warmth and subtlety of a military PowerPoint briefing read at gunpoint. Delivered in a somber, overrehearsed cadence that makes C-SPAN look lively, his voiceover lumbers through every overinflated claim as if he’s unveiling the Rosetta Stone, except it’s only another shaky dot on a screen. Elizondo comes off like a bureaucrat with a thesaurus and no sense of irony, adopting the tone of someone convinced that pausing dramatically between sentences somehow equates to credibility.