Spielberg's film is always a treat for the eye. He manages to recreate America and Europe of the "cold war" era with great aplomb. I defy anyone to find anachronistic errors in the visuals of the film. This film reunites the director with Tom Hanks. Hanks, who plays regularly this type of American who has integrity and honesty, and is driven by a strong sense of justice. He follows in the cinematic tradition of Gary Cooper and James Stewart, but does not add much to the genre, if only modernity. With a director so focused on the visuals, the depth of the characters remains deficient. Even a script signed by the Cohen brothers, amazingly did not help much. So I remained with the question: how does this fairly ordinary lawyer become so heroic in environments of hostile international intrigues.
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Wonderful review. I haven't seen the movie yet but will on the strength of your remarks. I especially liked the closing question. If that's an aesthetic question then I can't respond until I see the film but maybe it's a 'real' question it leads to an interesting contemplation: Maybe the difference between ordinary and heroic is entirely circumstantial. So folks who have ordinary lives often astonish us with their resources in dire straits (!) It may be that we all have heroic capacities.