From a screenplay by David Koepp, mystery thriller is directed and produced by Steven Spielberg.
Emily Blunt - Margaret Fairchild
Josh O'Connor - Daniel Kellner
Colin Firth - Noah Scanlon
Eve Hewson - Jane Blankenship
Colman Domingo - Hugo Wakefield
Wyatt Russell - Jackson
Henry Lloyd-Hughes - Casper Boyd
Summary
2026. The world is on the brink of World War III.
Cybersecurity hotshot Daniel Kellner steals a USB drive containing files about human-alien contact dating back to the Roswell incident of 1947 from the Wardex Corporation, a secret subsidary of the American government.
Branded a foreign spy by Wardex CEO Noah Scanlon, Daniel goes into hiding with his girlfriend Jane.
In Kansas City, KCXE4 meteorologist Margaret Fairchild is preparing for work when a cardinal briefly observes her and flies away. This awakens psychic abilities and allows her to communicate in unknown languages, and begins chittering during a live broadcast, attracting the attention of Wardex.
After narrowly escaping Scanlon's agents, Maraget also goes into hiding.
The truth is out there, I suppose.
Empathy is power
Disappointingly, this isn't a cheeky sequel to Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Spielberg is a legend, responsible for some of the greatest films of all time, but even the best have an off day.
Sure it's well constructed and Blunt is terrific, but what is essentially Enemy of the State was rather boring.
Much hyped action sequence involving a car jammed underneath a train boasts some tension, but over in a flash.
Firth's villain is rubbish and telepathically monitors activities via a makeshift gumshield that belongs in a boxer's mouth.
Margaret remembers that her and Daniel were abducted by extraterrestrials as childen and experiments gave them powers.
(Sigh).
There's even time for some shonky CG animals, which absolutely suck.
We get an actual alien in the last 5 minutes, who privately whispers a message to Daniel, with Margaret saying to the world: "Listen".
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