The 355 (2022)
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A group of international spies must unite to prevent a terrorist organization from triggering World War III.
The story
After a criminal mastermind obtains a special decryption program drive capable of accessing any digital system on Earth, a series of international incidents occur. CIA operative Mason "Mace" Browne is tasked with retrieving the device and travels to Paris, where she encounters complications involving a German undercover agent. Seeking assistance, Mace recruits a retired British MI6 operative. The mission leads them to Colombia, where they encounter a psychologist with no field experience. The group eventually realizes they must work together to track the thief and secure the drive before it can be used to cause global catastrophe.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
A drug lord presents criminal mastermind Elijah Clarke with a decryption drive that can access any digital system on Earth. After Clarke kills the drug lord, Colombian agent Luis Rojas obtains the device. CIA operative Mason "Mace" Browne is sent to purchase it but is intercepted by German agent Marie Schmidt. Mace learns her partner Nick Fowler was killed in the pursuit. Mace recruits retired MI6 agent Khadijah Adiyeme. They track the drive to a market where a DNI agent kills Luis and gives the drive to psychologist Graciela Rivera. Mace and Marie eventually team up with Khadijah and Graciela in Morocco to recover the drive. However, they discover the drive is in terrorist hands, causing global chaos. They find their superior, Larry Marks, dead and realize they are framed. At a black-market auction in Shanghai, they discover Nick is alive and is a mole for Clarke. A Chinese agent, Lin Mi Sheng, helps them escape but reveals Marks was also a mole. Nick captures the group, executing several hostages. The women rescue Lin, shoot Nick, and destroy the drive. Two months later, Nick is imprisoned, and the women prepare to reunite to fight agency corruption.
- First release year
- 2022
- Runtime (minutes)
- 123
- Production countries
- United States
- Original languages
- English
- Directors
- Simon Kinberg
- Writers
- Theresa Rebeck · screenplay; Simon Kinberg · screenplay; Theresa Rebeck · story
- Cast and characters
- Jessica Chastain; Penélope Cruz; Fan Bingbing; Diane Kruger; Lupita Nyong'o; Édgar Ramírez; Sebastian Stan
- Genres
- action; spy thriller; crime thriller; techno-thriller
- Themes
- international cooperation; espionage; female empowerment
- Tone and mood
- action-packed; tense; generic
- Setting
- Global locations including Bogotá, Colombia; Paris, France; London, UK; Morocco; and Shanghai, China.
- Premise and plot tags
- spy thriller; female-led; international intrigue
- Source material / true-story basis
- Agent 355, the codename of a female spy for the Patriots during the American Revolution.
- Reception
- The film received generally negative reviews from critics and was a box-office bomb, grossing $27.8 million worldwide against its budget of $75 million.
- Reported review scores
- Metacritic · score: 40 · scale: 100 · review count: 40
- Production trivia
- Jessica Chastain proposed the idea for the film while working with Kinberg on Dark Phoenix.; The title is derived from Agent 355, a female spy for the Patriots during the American Revolution.; The film was originally scheduled for release on January 15, 2021, but was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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