Unpopular (?) Spielberg opinion: BRIDGE OF SPIES was fine.

Here to burn all my karma in downvotes: I don't get the love for BRIDGE OF SPIES - it was fine, but no more than that in my view.

The arc of Tom Hanks going from grumpy insurance attorney - one willing in the opening scene to argue for an outcome that harms people hurt in an accident! - to a more-pure-than-the-driven-snow due process constitutional crusader felt entirely unmotivated to me. *Why* did he start to care so passionately - did I blink and miss the turning point in his motivation?

Related, his willingness to keep on with the case after people attempted to MURDER HIS CHILDREN -- why does he care so much about this case? Why was there no discussion with his wife about this, just one look? (Why wasn't there a risk she'd leave him?)

And then cliche screenwriting. "Would it help?" repeated too many times, for example. Powers is introduced pretty late and superficially, and Pryor even moreso. The contempt the CIA guys have for Pryor's Yale-affiliation is extremely dumb given that the CIA recruited HEAVILY from Yale during that era.

I didn't hate it, but there have been a bunch of past discussions on this sub where people name it a top 5 Spielberg, and I am *really* not seeing that.