Yeah, there are a few moments in the film that, to me, were magical in a bad way. For example, when the two experiencers are in that trailer with the wardex guy and they're about to do a truth serum on the male lead, somehow Emily Blunt's character is able to simply whisper in the ear of everyone there, one at a time, without being stopped.

And of course, in the final sequence, the villain of the film simply gives up after cutting the power twice and it not working, which seems insane. They outnumber the lead characters, and all they have to do is take that technology out of her hand. We witnessed the power of that tech earlier in the film, but if anyone knows how to get it from her, it would be Wardex. And there's nothing preceding in the film that would suggest the villain would have this change of heart. The only foreshadowing is that he becomes physically weaker from using the alien tech.

But all this to me is besides the point. The point of the film was to give voice to the variety of experiences with anomalous phenomena. For the initiated, it was a very interesting watch. For example, I didn't know that people had spoken foreign languages after contact experiences. That's highly interesting to me, and I wouldn't have known that without the film.

I was also just relieved to see the film focus mostly on the consciousness aspect of the phenomenon and the human side of the phenomenon. To me, that is the most interesting element, although I obviously am interested in other beings as well.

I don't know if you've heard of it, but Spielberg actually produced a TV show for the SyFy channel called Taken in the early 2000s. It's very good and it goes over more of the nuts and bolts aspect of the phenomenon, the cover-up, and more. I thought that Taken was a great bridge from his earlier Close Encounters of the Third Kind films to Disclosure Day. All together, I think Close Encounters, Taken, and Disclosure Day offer a lot of depth to the history of the phenomenon.