Director Steven Spielberg
Starring Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Alan Alda
Rated M
Score 5/6

During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to first defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Gary Powers.

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It should be noted that James Donovan wrote an account of the incident in 1964 under the title Strangers on a Bridge: The Case of Colonel Abel and Francis Gary Powers
With Steven Spielberg in the director’s chair and Tom Hanks as the lead actor I knew that I was in expert hands and had very little to worry about my movie going experience. Spielberg brought a completely different tone to Bridge of Spies then what I was expecting from a cold war thriller. Most Cold War Thrillers that I have come across in the past had this cat & mouse level of intensity, Bridge of Spies had none of that but still managed to maintain my interest the whole way through the movie if only from a historical point of view considering that I only knew of Gary Powers by name and knew even less of James B. Donovan, Rudolf Abel and Frederic Pryor.
I was struck by the relationship between Donovan and Colonel Abel and the level of trust that Abel seemed to have for Donavon and I enjoyed Mark Rylance’s performance.