A realistic and stressful drama!

Rating: 7/10 (5 April 2019)

It is not that common a movie absorbs you with its story, but when it does, you could feel living inside it and experience it as it goes. Tom Hanks' acting is as good as ever and Mark Rylance's performance is absolutely incredible for which he won the academy Awards for best actor in a supporting role.
It's a movie about legal confidentiality in the years of the cold war, before Berlin's wall was broken. East Germany is highly under the Soviet union's influence, and a lawyer is responsible for trading lives between US, USSR and East Germany.
It's easy to watch as the rhythm of the movie never slows down more than a few seconds. Music is adequately good for the movie, Oscar Nominated.
I've never been a fan of Coen Brothers, and I've seen many of their originals. I liked their screenplay for this movie better than the others. Steven Spielberg's patriotism once again is dominating in this movie.
So, if you are one of those people who'd enjoy watching a movie based on a true story, full of dialogues, monologues, great acting, good music, and a lot of nervousness, this is your type of movie. I deducted a few points for I'd never watch this movie again, didn't love the directing, and I think there were unnecessary exaggeration in some scenes.
However, I loved that you'll know about the situation and what is going on in many scenes just as the protagonist knows and understands: if he's waiting, you're waiting, if he's scared, you're scared, and if he's nervous about what is going to happen, you'd feel the same. The amount of empathy you'd feel for this movie's characters is very much in many scenes. Other scenes, on the contrary, somehow hard to feel any empathy.
All in all, watch this movie, there's a reason it's been nominated for many awards, and as much as Spielberg's involvement, the quality of production is never below a certain point which makes it, still, a good movie to enjoy and a good story to listen to.