The 355 | 2022    

Updated January 26, 2022

Summary & Info

The 355
After two CIA agents (Jessica Chastain and Sebastian Stan) are assigned to find a weapon that could cause a global catastrophe, their plan quickly goes awry and they are left to enlist the help of an international band of agents to have any hope of prevailing. Cast: Penélope Cruz, Bingbing Fan, Diane Kruger, Lupita Nyong’o, Jason Flemyng, John Douglas Thompson, Pablo Scola and Sylvester Groth. Director: Simon Kinberg. [2:02 – PG-13]

Dueling Critics

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“Most of the hand-to-hand combat is good, and there are fantastic chase scenes (on foot and motorcycles). In addition, the copious amounts of gunplay, as the team stumbles upon a vast weapons and munitions stash, is all very exciting… This is good old action fun with a well-constructed story and is better than many James Bond films.”
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“As executed, unfortunately, it’s lumbering and familiar, with characters whose individual traits come off more like ideas on a note card than as actual humanity…’The 355′ is as by-the-numbers as a Sudoku.”

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The 355 | 2022

    

Updated MONTH_DAY, 2022

Critical Consensus

Dueling Critics

thumbs-up“Most of the hand-to-hand combat is good, and there are fantastic chase scenes (on foot and motorcycles). In addition, the copious amounts of gunplay, as the team stumbles upon a vast weapons and munitions stash, is all very exciting… This is good old action fun with a well-constructed story and is better than many James Bond films.”
thumbs-down“As executed, unfortunately, it’s lumbering and familiar, with characters whose individual traits come off more like ideas on a note card than as actual humanity…’The 355′ is as by-the-numbers as a Sudoku.”

Summary & Info

The 355
After two CIA agents (Jessica Chastain and Sebastian Stan) are assigned to find a weapon that could cause a global catastrophe, their plan quickly goes awry and they are left to enlist the help of an international band of agents to have any hope of prevailing. Cast: Penélope Cruz, Bingbing Fan, Diane Kruger, Lupita Nyong’o, Jason Flemyng, John Douglas Thompson, Pablo Scola and Sylvester Groth. Director: Simon Kinberg. [2:02 – PG-13]

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