This movie is directed by Steven Spielberg and stars Tom Hanks. It’s got to be good, right? Oh, wait, let’s not forget about The Terminal. But this is going to be different. Bridge of Spies could be a nice counterpart to Saving Private Ryan. As a look at how different the Cold War was compared to World War II. Or it could stand on its own, too. Especially with a screenplay co-written by the Coen brothers, who revised the original draft by Matt Charman.
Bridge of Spies is based on the true story of the 1960 incident where an American U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union, its pilot, Francis Gary Powers (Austin Stowell) imprisoned for espionage. Hanks plays a lawyer sent to Germany to carry out an exchange, turning over Soviet agent Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance), who had been serving in prison in the US for his own failed spy mission (involving hollow nickels, as seen in the trailer), for Powers.
That doesn’t sound like much for a movie to go on, and frankly the trailer doesn’t make it seem like much more than a generic Cold War thriller. In history, the U-2 incident and its subsequent cover-up were significant to the relationship of East and West, but in a big picture sense. The movie does appear to be concerned with many broad ideas, particularly in the Constitution, and despite promise of a bit of action here and there, this could be a rather talky affair. This won’t be one of Spielberg’s higher-grossing movies.
What the plot might make audiences think of, despite it being unintentional by the filmmakers, is last year’s controversial exchange of five Taliban prisoners for Bowe Bergdahl. That transaction was compared to the Powers/Abel swap in the media, mostly in listing past memorable exchanges. And the relevance could give the movie some extra depth.
Bridge of Spies, which also stars Alan Alda, Amy Ryan, Jesse Plemons and Sebastian Koch, opens on October 16th.
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