average to boring

Rating: 4/10 (17 January 2016)

OK, Bridge Of Spies. Long (141 mins) and boring spy thriller with the usual performance from Tom Hanks (James Donovan) who's face throughout the middle of the movie looks like a carrot due to the the bad makeup and in the other half has the usual-suspect- grimace if he is having a poo because of too much effort trying to convince us with his tricks in a particular scene. The story is ...hm "based on a true story" which can't save it from superficiality. Mark Rylance who plays Rudolf Abel is much more interesting/convincing as an actor but also struggle in the adapted screenplay so whoever did it better not do it again.The Iron Curtain/Berlin Wall is very much Hollywood and you have seen it in many other movies so you are already prepared for it and will not surprise you. At all. It's all a happy ending at the end so everyone's happy apart from me cause it was a waste of time.