Saw Bridge of Spies. It was okay. A conventional, well made film. What works was how the dreariness of the Cold War period comes through, grimy, grubby East Berlin, the Wall, the Red scare in the USA. And Rylance is brilliant in his interpretation of the Russian spy Abel. True to his beliefs, so sympathetic this Rylance version of Abel. Right from the beginning though, the film lacks something, I don't know, a certain kind of tension. It's all there except a good dose of suspense. I guess Spielberg/Coen brothers were interested in making a film about that particular era without juicing it up into a John Le Carre thriller. Decent enough film, lacking a spark.
