Bridge Of Spies Essay

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Bridge of Spies Review |Tom Hanks shines in an engrossing real-life Cold War story

Bridge of Spies brings together the formidable team of Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks in an engrossing true-life tale of espionage during the Cold War era. There could possibly be hundreds of such tales in history, but only St. Steven can make it into an Oscar-bait movie experience. Unlike most complicated spy thrillers which involves a lot of discrete phone calls from phone-boxes and driving around in taxis trying to get rid of the tail, Spielberg takes you for a ride laid with logical reasoning and narrative coherence.

In the year 1957, hostilities between USA and USSR are at all-time high after the Rosenberg executions. In Brooklyn, a USSR spy Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance) is arrested on charges of stealing US military documents and passing on to Kremlin. James Donovan (Tom Hanks) a successful …show more content…

Matt Charman‘s influence looks to have won the day as the Coen’s off-kilter sense of humor is much more tempered in the movie. Though a more tightly focused screenplay would have resulted in a more leaner and riveting movie fare, it is unlikely you will be complaining about it.

Tom Hanks brings to the table his years of acting forte, leading the viewer deftly through all the set-pieces. He is the perfect casting for this role and it comes across when during the finale of the prisoner exchange at the Glienicke Bridge, we would care more about the fate of Soviet agent Abel and not the two returning Americans in exchange. Despite a consummate actor like Hanks sharing screen space with Mark Rylance, it is often Rylance who steals the screen presence in few of the scenes which is indicative of Rylance’s fine acting skills on

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