Great visuals as expected in a Spielberg film

Rating: 7/10 (28 October 2015)

Spielberg's film is always a treat for the eye. He manages to recreate America and Europe of the "cold war" era with great aplomb. I defy anyone to find anachronistic errors in the visuals of the film. This film reunites the director with Tom Hanks. Hanks, who plays regularly this type of American who has integrity and honesty, and is driven by a strong sense of justice. He follows in the cinematic tradition of Gary Cooper and James Stewart, but does not add much to the genre, if only modernity.
With a director so focused on the visuals, the depth of the characters remains deficient. Even a script signed by the Cohen brothers, amazingly did not help much. So I remained with the question: how does this fairly ordinary lawyer become so heroic in environments of hostile international intrigues.