Kansas City Earns 'Disclosure Day' Spotlight

The basics on this movie . . . 

While most reviewers celebrate it as a thrilling, big-hearted return to the director's classic sci-fi roots, a vocal minority of critics and early viewers find it overstuffed and dated.

 Meanwhile . . . Of course . . . Our cowtown is mostly concerned with local references . . . 

"If you live in Kansas City, if you know Kansas City at all, you might be tempted to spend too much time trying to figure out if those are real Kansas City streets, buildings, cop cars, city buses and fire engines in Steven Spielberg's new summer blockbuster, "Disclosure Day."

"Because pivotal moments in this movie about whether extraterrestrial life has ever visited planet Earth take place in and around Kansas City."

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com links . . .

Fictionalized Kansas City at heart of Spielberg's new ET movie, 'Disclosure Day'

Fans learned last year that Steven Spielberg's alien blockbuster was set in the heartland.

Here's a much better review from Kansas City cinema expert Robert Butler . . . 

"DISCLOSURE DAY": Lost in the woo-woo weeds

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