Review of Bridge of Spies (2015) by Brianad9 — 18 Jan 2016

Written by the Coens, directed by Stephen Speilberg, and starring Tom Hanks. That should be all you need to know. However, this movie, while good, is kind of boring. It's not even close to being as good as I had hoped it would be, and I didn't have super-high expectations anyway, as odd as that may sound.

Don't get me wrong, it's good. But it's not THAT good. Tom Hanks was great as always, but it's not a stand-out role. Mark Rylance has been nominated for the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, but he was just a good character.

He could have been replaced by anybody and it would have been good. And on that note, this film should NOT be nominated for best picture. There were at least two other films that didn't get nominated that are far superior in every way that didn't get a nomination.

It does have some interesting direction, and I liked the way it moved along at some points, but then there were a couple times when I didn't like how it went from one scene to another. Bridge of Spies isn't great, but isn't bad.

I think it would have been better as a novel than a film.