Quartile rating: 6.5/10 · 1 rating
Director Dan Farah got 34 senior members of the U.S. Government, military, and intelligence community to come on camera. He says they reveal an 80 year cover-up of the existence of non-human intelligent life and a secret war amongst major nations to reverse engineer technology of non-human origin. The film explores the profound impact the situation has on the future of humanity, while providing a look behind-the-scenes with those at the forefront of the bi-partisan disclosure effort.
The Age of Disclosure assembles an impressive roster of 34 senior U.S. government, military, and intelligence figures on camera, which gives it genuine weight in the crowded UAP documentary space. The testimonial format is competently executed and the subject matter carries inherent drama, earning it an above-average plot score for its structured narrative arc around disclosure. Acting is rated as interviews rather than performances, and the witnesses come across as credible and composed. Cinematography is functional but unremarkable — standard talking-head framing with occasional stock footage, typical of the genre. Novelty is above average given the unprecedented access and the specific framing around bipartisan political momentum, though the UAP documentary genre is well-worn. The ending feels somewhat inconclusive, as is inevitable with an ongoing geopolitical story, leaving viewers without satisfying resolution — a structural limitation of the subject matter rather than a filmmaking choice.