Lots of things going for it, but should have been more nuanced.

Rating: 7/10 (6 November 2016)

So little was needed to make this a fantastic movie. The story itself is great, the insurance lawyer ending up way over his head, but approaching it with perfect calm. The mysterious spy. THe tension of the cold war. And the people involved in making this movie are also fantastic. From the Coens, to Hanks, Spielberg and so on. The movie looks good, and the actors do a good job.
It seems like they tried to make a movie that is a bit more nuanced than good versus evil, where the characters aren't just black or white, but complex moral beings. But it doesn't really succeed. I like the way they explore the act all of the nations has to put up, and how all of them blunders, but do try to avoid war. But at the same time, the movie does not take the time to show the East Germans and the Russians as more than narrow minded. It was a terrible situation, and it should not be excused, but even a big movie like this should try to do justice to the (very real) people who lived back then, on all sides of the conflict. Much like Donovan does, in the movie.
The movie is somewhat split into two, and the first part is definitely the best.