26 July 2016

Bridge of Spies (Steven Spielberg, 2015)

7.5/10
Another "fine" movie, slightly more "fine" than The Danish Girl and with a more interesting, knottier story, but still not exactly a classic. Tom Hanks plays this kind of role in his sleep - the affable everyman in a situation where he's out of his depth. Not that I think Russian spies would have been well-received in America during the Cold War, but the movie's insistence on treating Hanks' character as the only sane man in the country (even his own wife can't understand why her husband - a lawyer - would defend a spy) is grating. Other than that, everybody does their jobs well and I probably won't remember much of the movie in a few months' time.

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