Disclosure Day’s ending gets one thing wrong that Spielberg nailed 49 years ago

Given Steven Spielberg’s return to the alien genre with Disclosure Day, I can’t help but compare the movie to his other films depicting extraterrestrials, and, generally, it holds up quite well. Much like War of the Worlds, this film is a high-stakes chase, and both are satisfying action rides. While almost no film compares toE.T.’s sense of wonder, some of the scenes with animals in Disclosure Day evoke a similar feeling. The closest comparison, however,is Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which highlights some of the strengths of Disclosure Day as well as its one major shortcoming: the ending.