Good Spielburg Drama

Rating: 8/10 (7 January 2017)

I thought Bridge of Spies was a well made period drama. I really enjoy that Spielburg takes efforts to make you feel like you are in the fifties in this one. The cars, the style, and even the authentic train Hanks rode to work made it excellent. I enjoy period pieces, they are more engrossing when the environment around the actors seems to match the era they are supposed to be in. The little touches were great.
I found, like another reviewer, this movie to be more humorous than I expected as well. I really liked Abel's repeated "Would it help?" to comedic effect. This was a well written drama by the Coen brothers as well. The combination of the Coen's writing with Spielburg's vision was great.
Tom Hanks is fantastic in this movie as he usually is. I am a big fan of Tom Hanks, he has always been very versatile. Here he plays a lawyer tapped to defend a suspected Russian spy in court, and negotiate the return of captured Americans in exchange for the spy. Hanks does well with these types of roles.
There isn't a lot of action in this movie, but there is still an excellent Spielburgian action sequence. The movie moves along fairly quickly for such a long movie, and that is no small feat, as some of the material is pretty dry. This movie could have been much more boring than it was, the story was told well. I am a huge Spielburg fan, like many movie fans, and he does a great job again. The cinematography from Spielburg's regular team was excellent.
Overall I enjoyed this movie, and I am not generally a fan of spy movies. I find spy movies boring sometimes, even ones with great action sequences. This movie is a well made period drama, that should satisfy fans of the Coen brothers, Tom Hanks, and Steven Speilburg. Check it out if you like biographical period dramas. 8/10