The dramatic thriller Bridge of Spies directed by Steven Spielberg starring Tom Hanks (James B. Donovan) is a true story about an insurance attorney who was recruited to defend an alleged Soviet spy (Rudolph Abel) during the Cold War. The people of Brooklyn New York didn’t like the fact that Donovan was defending a Soviet spy, however he believed “every person deserves a defense.”
Donovan went beyond the call of duty by brokering the exchange of American pilot Francis Gary Powers, who was shot down out of his U-2 spy plane over the Soviet Union and captured, as well as Fredric Pryor, an Economics graduate student who makes the mistake of going to East Berlin just as the Berlin Wall is being built to separate Soviet occupied East Germany from democratic West Germany.
The movie shed light into the building of the Berlin Wall (1949), which was torn down in 1990.
The movie fell short in depicting and or detailing the world issues that they were attempting to portray. The acting was very good, the story itself was rather shallow when dealing with such an important issue. For this reason I cannot give this movie 5 stars however I will give it 4 stars due to the exemplary acting by Tom Hanks and other cast members.
The film is rated PG-13.
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