The science fiction landscape has been thriving for years but it's been a while since we've really had some gripping non-franchise sci-fi epics on the big screen. We got that earlier this year with Project Hail Mary and now we're getting it again with Disclosure Day. Steven Spielberg's thrilling new alien movie features a star-studded cast, including Emily Blunt, Josh O'Connor, Eve Hewson, Colman Domingo, Colin Firth, and Wyatt Russell and it is sure to take the box office by storm as one of the many summer blockbusters this year.
It is also a film designed to leave audiences with a lot of questions. However, in today's day and age, audiences are usually asking one constant question before they go out to see a movie, and they are sure to ask it again here: Does Disclosure Day have a post-credits scene? After credits scenes come with the territory now, so is it the same here? Unfortunately, no. That said, there is an even better reason to wait around until after the credits have finished rolling.
Disclosure Day's end credits feature incredible music from John Williams
Although Disclosure Day doesn't feature a post-credits scene, there is a pretty significant reason to stick around after the end f the movie and watch the credits. That has to do with legendary composer John Williams, who produces some of his most gripping work to date with the film's score.
After the film cuts to black, concluding its thought-provoking 2 hours and 25 minutes runtime, we are immediately met with Williams' haunting score. There's an air of melancholia to the primarily unnerving piece but, much as we see throughout the movie itself, there's enough triumph in there that you can recognize Williams' signature sounds. Those hopeful, bellowing sounds that his orchestra are renowned there. Yes, they are much more subtle this time, but they are in there.
Speaking of Williams' previous work, the Academy Award, BAFTA, and Golden Globe winner is one of the most legendary composers in Hollywood, having given us the iconic music behind the likes of Star Wars, Jurassic Park, Superman, ET: The Extra-Terrestrial, Home Alone, Indiana Jones, Jaws, Schindler's List and so much more. He's also a frequent collaborator of Spielberg's, working on a host of his movies including the first two Jurassic Park films, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Hook, Saving Private Ryan, and E.T.
To say that his reputation precedes him would be an understatement, and his past catalog of sci-fi certainly serves him well in Disclosure Day. The thriller is an edge-of-seat affair that keeps viewers on the edges of their seats right to the end, like a pressure cooker in which you could feel the intensity being turned up as audiences hope for the main protagonists to succeed. The unpredictable events certainly benefit from Williams' music, which offers up plenty of recognizable thrills while also stripping it back for a more intense, direct, static sound when necessary.
The magic of Spielberg and Williams has indeed done it again, and if you want to see that for yourself: Wait until after the credits are finished to get the complete experience!
It's hard to make standalone sci-fi movies work in the day and age of superhero movies, but Disclosure Day certainly makes a case for itself. Whether it will stand among the greatest like Independence Day and Close Encounters of the Third Kind remains to be seen, but if anyone can make it happen, it's Spielberg.
Disclosure Day is in cinemas now.
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