With similarities to ET and Close Encounters, Steven Spielberg returns to what he loves most in Disclosure Day, aliens and extraterrestrial life.

The plot, which is basically a chase movie, begins with Cybersecurity specialist Daniel Kellner (Josh O’Connor) stealing a piece of extraterrestrial technology and files that show that alien life actually does exist.

Meanwhile at the same time as Daniel is stealing the files television meteorologist Margaret Fairchild (Emily Blunt) finds that she has suddenly been granted the power to speak any language not only on earth by also ones that are alien to earth.

After Maragaret starts speaking in an alien tongue whilst doing a weather forecast, she comes to the attention of the Wardex Corporation, a secret arm of the U.S. government, led by its CEO Noah Scanlon (Colin Firth).

This leads to Margaret and Daniel being hunted by Scanlon who uses an alien artifact to get into people’s heads.

At the same time that they are being chased by Wardex they are also being chased by ex-employees of Wardex, led by Hugo Wakefield (Colman Domingo), who want to use Margaret and Daniel to expose everything that Wardex has been keeping secret from the public.

Disclosure Day moves at a slow pace, unusually for Spielberg there are very few action scenes, a dice with death involving a train and a car being one of the few scenes that will have you sitting on the edge of your seat.

 Disclosure Day might not be Spielberg at his best, it does at times feel as if he is treading over old ground, but even a second grade Spielberg film is better than some of the stuff that’s been served up in cinemas over the past couple of years.