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Watch it? Rent it? Skip it?

Rent it. The hype was so much better than the movie itself. I was disappointed, but at least I didn’t fall asleep. This is a Spielberg movie. You would expect that someone who brought us Saving Private Ryan, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Schindlers List would bring his magic to Disclose Day. He didn’t. It’s now ranked in the top ten of the worst movies he has created. I have to agree.

It is an interesting movie but so full of “Oh come on” moments that it was hard to enjoy. There are car chase scenes that just don’t make sense. The film editing was poor with obvious errors. Some claims”It makes you think”. Think about what? Why I spent $10 on this movie? If there was a message in the movie it was lost in the poorly formed plot. Much like a kid playing Thermonuclear War on NORADs computers the take over of a world wide TV station was just plain, what is the word?, stupid. Just plain stupid. I was waiting for someone to pull out a hand held dish to connect to the satellite and enter the computers through the back door. Yes, it was that, uh, stupid.

The movie started ok. It was interesting but fell apart as characters fell off the screen never to be seen again. It seems like Spielberg ran out of money and ideas at the end of the movie. I was disappointed. It had so much promise. I think ET was better.

Wait for it to hit streaming at a discount price.

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