The 355 is a welcomed spin on spy movies focusing on four ladies, which are quite unconventional as compared to the regular masculine outlook. It’s centred on CIA agent Mason ‘Mace’ Brown and her reasonably diverse team made out of German agent Marie, tech expert Khadijah, and psychologist Graciela; their mission to get back a stolen high-profile weapon underscores ideas of growth on the job and relationship between coworkers under pressure.
Simon Kinberg succeed in offering an exciting movie full of energetic and dynamic actions and enough character development to let viewers care about the heroes. Due to an abundance of talented actors and actresses such as Jessica Chastain, Lupita Nyong’o, Diane Kruger and Penélope Cruz the characters are believable and complex, while, at the same time, being powerful and conflicted in a field dominated mostly by males.
On the visually level, the movie is very rich in rich and various locations all over the globe and this adds tension to the story. But it does so occasionally enough to fall into the trappings of the genre from time to time, employing what feels a bit too hackneyed at time. Still, *The 355* strongly underlines sisterhood and invincibility, that collective women’s unity knowns no bounds and that redemption is inevitable. In conclusion, the film presents a good balance of the type of action that makes it entertaining and the type of action that inspires people; especially the occasion for unity.
