Meanwhile TV weather presenter Margaret Fairchild (Emily Blunt), who is struggling with being overlooked for serious work, starts to have a very weird day.
Steven Spielberg indulges his obsession with UFOs and all the typical Roswell conspiracy stuff, the key word being indulges.
It's Spielberg so meets a minimum level of competence but it's very mid gerontocratic boomercore. Its vision of a grand conspiracy is rooted in Spielberg's milieux and that now looks very old fashioned.
There are some good bits. Colman Domingo is fun as the "revolutionary" Hugo and Emily Blunt's a safe pair of hands but there's just so much meh.
At multiple points the bad guys could have ended it all in a hail of bullets and given the stakes probably would have. It tries to avoid action movie answers by simply pretending they don't exist instead of providing better ones.
Yawn 6/10