Review of Bridge of Spies (2015) by Wayne M — 27 Dec 2016

Bridge of Spies is perhaps what you would expect from latter day Spielberg. Solid efficient storytelling that never truly leaps off the screen. Based on true events the film concerns itself with the Cold War of the late 50s as Tom Hanks plays an American lawyer who has to defend a Soviet spy and then later negotiate his exchange with a US prisoner.

Hanks is effective if rather dull and the script is rather heavy handed and although the story flows along the tension never really escalates and by the end it just all falls a bit flat.