Review of Bridge of Spies (2015) by Hotfromcauldron — 19 Oct 2015

For the first forty minutes I thought I was watching an episode of Father Knows Best. Older sis gets stood up by her mystery man (duh) while younger bro has been scared out of his wits watching a cartoon of an A-bomb attack ala Reefer Madness in school .

And I was sure dad/hero/ Hanks and his wife slept in separate beds with one foot touching the floor. But back to the story which is not worthy of a movie , not if you don’t get into the heads of the characters - especially the two Abercrombie and Fitch models- Powers and Pryor- in this reality game of Spy Swap.

Mercifully, Mark Rylance plays Russian spy Rudolf Abel - not Christoph Waltz - the only thing that didn't leave me cold. For a movie with a slow start it has way too many endings - the corniest - a faint smile from a passenger on a subway.

Plodding, preachy and predictable this “Bridge" finally takes a toll on your patience to where anyone who paid $13 for a ticket would want to jump.