Owen Gleiberman dari Variety menilai film ini kehilangan unsur ketakjuban yang biasa ditemukan pada film-film alien klasik Spielberg.

Ia mengatakan Disclosure Day terasa lebih seperti dokudrama cerita detektif.

"Disclosure Day never gives you the contact high of awe that Close Encounters did… where Close Encounters tapped into the mystery of all this with an innocence that was both starry-eyed and spectacular, Disclosure Day feels like the most thriller docudrama that’s too cut-and-dried about what it believes," ujar Gleiberman.

Stephen Silver dari The SS Ben Hecht memberikan pandangan mengenai kemiripan teknologi masa depan dan aksi pengejaran dengan film fiksi ilmiah lain.

"Between the futuristic technology and the numerous chase scenes, it feels more like Minority Report than any of Spielberg’s previous alien-related pictures," katanya.

Ia mencatat bahwa meskipun Spielberg mengangkat tema trauma masa kecil dan kontak alien yang sudah sering dipakainya, eksekusinya tetap terasa baru.

"Spielberg revisits several themes he’s tackled throughout his long career, most notably human-alien content and the revisiting of childhood trauma.

But he handles both in a way that feels original, or at least different from the director’s past treatments of such subjects," ujarnya.

Ia juga menambahkan informasi mengenai proses panjang penulisan naskah film ini. "The script reportedly went through more than 40 drafts, but Koepp appears to have nailed it," tambahnya.

Joshua Mbonu dari Geek Vibes Nation menyoroti perpaduan emosi yang kuat dan ketegangan intens dalam film ini.

"As intensely thrilling as it is emotionally powerful, [it’s] tapping into a similar tonal mash-up we’ve seen within Minority Report and A.