Disclosure Day review: Theres an alien cover-up in Steven Spielbergs exciting sci-fi movie

With a new Steven Spielberg alien movie coming out, everybody’s nervously wondering: Is this thing “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” or “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”?Running time: 145 minutes.PG-13 (Some bloody images, action, violence, strong language).

In theaters June 12.Neither, actually.“Disclosure Day” hews closer to “Minority Report,” with a man on the run from menacing forces.There is no extraterrestrial invasion, fleet of space ships or laser weapons as in “The War of the Worlds.” Unlike “E.T.,” an adorable martian is not featured as a main character.This nonetheless exciting sci-fi film is about a whistleblower who knows too much and is fighting to expose the greatest cover-up in history.

Kinda like “The Post!”All that said, “Disclosure Day” is not a serious imagining of how humanity will discover that there’s life on other planets — a la Denis Villeneuve’s “Arrival.” It’s Spielberg having big, bouncy, creative, strange fun.For starters, telepathy plays a major part.OK, I guess it isn’t totally different from “Crystal Skull.”Spielberg and screenwriter David Koepp, in a unique spin, have taken the U.S.

Government out of the mix.No sweaty Oval Office phone calls or swarms of FBI agents here either.Instead, a private data security company in Virginia called Wardex is charged with protecting the secret that little green men have visited Earth many times.

The idea is that presidential power can change over every four years, so this consequential knowledge needs to be kept somewhere safe and consistent.Wardex conceals video evidence spanning eight decades — Roswell included — and powerful, mysterious artifacts.Not for long.

A fed-up employee named Daniel (Josh O’Connor) steals all that info and heads off with his girlfriend Jane (Eve Hewson) to reveal the truth alongside other Wardex defectors, including Colman Domingo’s Hugo.They’re chased by his boss Noah, a role ...