Simon Kinberg’s 2022 spy movie 355 The ending leaves several questions, as there are a few plot twists before the credits roll. Twists are usually expected in movies about secret agents, but 355 Throws it at the audience very quickly and with little explanation. 355 Follows a team of female agents played by an all-star cast including Jessica Chastain, Lupita Nyong’o and Penélope Cruz. Each female international super-spy has a different set of skills that they use to retrieve a piece of technology that in the wrong hands could lead the world to total chaos.
Although each woman works for a different national intelligence agency, they learn to trust each other in their efforts to obtain the device. 355 The movie has many features of spy/secret agent films, such as fake deaths and double agents. The film received largely negative reviews before and after its release, pointing to the story points and twists as clichés along with the lack of development of the main characters. There was hope though 355The premise of its female bond approach will stir and stir, the result ultimately leaving viewers with many questions.
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355 Cast and Character Guide
An action movie revolving around an all-female, international team of super spies, The 355 is led by some of Hollywood’s biggest stars.
What was so special about the drive?
The device has the ultimate digital skeleton key
Even with the multiple twists that come across 355Plot threads weave themselves around a mysterious hard drive. Called simply “The Drive” by the film’s characters, the device is introduced in the first scene of the film and changes hands many times between detective agents and master criminals. The agents try to both buy or steal the drive for their respective agencies, but in the end, the man behind the scenes trying to get hold of the drive is a powerful man named Elijah Clarke (Jason Fleming). But what is the attraction to the seemingly harmless device?
ace 355 Vaguely explaining the technology, the drive contains a special decryption program that can access any system, making it a rival to any of Bond’s gadgets. At one point in the movie, when the device is in enemy hands, it is used to cause city-wide power outages and plane crashes. The loose gun describes a world falling apart, horrified by CIA agent Mace (Chastain) and company’s use of the device.
Little reasoning is given as to why the drive was created or how it actually controls access and over-complex systems, such as city electricity that runs through a power grid and is not a computer-based system. Even if knowledge of how the drive works is lacking, it is in high demand. The CIA first paid heavily to Luis Rojas (Edgar Ramirez, recognized for his role in David Ayer’s Social Commentary bright), a rogue agent of Colombia’s DNI, for the drive before it was stolen, and later auctioned for exorbitant sums on the darknet.
Nick and Mark’s Betrayal Twist Explained
Mace was deceived for a long time
The allure of the drive brings the biggest twist 355 In the form of Nick Fowler’s (Sebastian Stan) betrayal of Mace. The drive itself is a textbook MacGuffin – meaning an object in a film that really exists as a narrative device to drive the plot (think the briefcase Pulp Fiction). As colleagues, Fowler and Mays began their pursuit of the operation together, supposedly on behalf of the CIA. The two begin a romance before parting ways in a heated chase for a drive.
Although Mace is told that Nick has died in the chase, he is shocked to encounter him again after his CIA superior, Larry Marks (John Douglas Thompson) (reflecting Bucky Barnes, another Stan character in MCU history) restores the drive in his honor. Encourages him to go rogue. Nick reveals to Mace that he has been working for Clark full time and has been sent to an art auction in Shanghai to bid on a piece of art where the drive is hidden.
It is revealed shortly afterwards that Marks was also in Clark’s pay and Mays had both been duped. Nick and Marcus were using Mace’s skills and rebellious streak to their advantage to get drives for Clarke. Mace is understandably upset by the betrayal but conflicted by her attachment to Nick, providing the emotional stakes for it. 355Its central character.
How Agent Sheng’s Art Auction Sting Works
MSS wanted to know who would bid on the drive
Nick’s betrayal is revealed 355The most glamorous set-piece, a lucrative art auction at a gallery in Shanghai (where Mission Impossible III’s Ethan Hunt looked for the rabbit’s foot). After turning the drive into Marx, an agent of the Chinese MSS (Bingbing Fan) quickly steals it back. Former MI6 agent Khadija Adieme (Nyong’o) tracks the drive to Shanghai and informs Mace, German agent Marie Schmidt (Diane Kruger) and Colombian psychologist DNI Graciela Rivera (Cruz).
With the drive hidden inside an antique art piece, participants placed bids on the vase while simultaneously bidding on the drive on the darknet. The agents plan to infiltrate the auction and retrieve the drive but fail. They are then escorted to a safe location by the Chinese agent, who reveals himself as Lin Mi Seng and tells the group that the auction was an elaborate set-up.
coming late 355 The twist reveals that Sheng and his father were part of an MSS plan to show who would bid on the drive. MSS will use this information to try to bring down those involved in illegal activities. The drive to place the art piece was a fake; Sheng was driving the whole time. This plan works for a short time, until Clark learns that Nick has bid a large amount of his money on a fake drive.
how 355 Sets up a possible sequel
The intriguing premise ends on an open-ended note
Nick tries to make amends by locating Sheng’s safe place, threatening the agents’ loved ones until Sheng leaves the drive. Khadija destroys the drive, but the women get caught up in the crime and escape. Months later, Mace and the other women seek revenge on Nick, who has been promoted by the CIA. Mace begins to remind Nick of the story they were told in training of Agent 355, an unnamed woman who worked as a spy for the colonies during the American Revolution.
After poisoning Nick and leaving him to be arrested for his crimes, the women split up but seem to realize that they will probably end up working together again. 355 Marvel Films doesn’t announce sequels like they do with post-credits scenes but the ending leaves the story open for one.
Despite the film’s title, the women’s team is not officially referred to as 355. This leaves the possibility for the story to continue; Perhaps Mays could start a new organization with his international teammates. Or maybe a sequel could stick with the original five women as 355 as they seek to investigate corruption in their own intelligence agency.
Why 355 shouldn’t get a sequel
There simply isn’t enough demand for the 355 2
Although 355′With the team finally alive leaving a narrative door open for a sequel and a potential release, the cast (which is still an awesome lineup) would probably be better off retooling for an entirely new project. Conceptually, 355 Showed a lot of promise, and earlier ones like 2000 Charlie’s Angels Remake There proved to be a market for female-led ensemble action films.
unfortunately, 355 It was poorly received by both critics and audiences, and while second chances can pay off, forcing a franchise doesn’t help anyone, especially if it starts off with a shaky reception.355 A twisty spy thriller, and movies like this can spiral into long-lived franchises through releases and assignments.
Any sequel would run the serious risk of feeling forced and contrived through genre contrivance, ie
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Just don’t have franchise-scale pull.
A taskmaster like Bond’s “M” or Austin Powers’ Basil can assign potentially unlimited missions, meaning there’s always an option for a sequel (which is partly why Kingsman: The Golden Circle flipped the script by killing Arthur). There are multiple points in between of bonds Decades-long history when contemporary critics felt he overstayed his welcome, but 007 has so far managed to pull it back with a franchise-reviving entry like 1991. Goldeneye or 2006 Casino Royale.
Conversely, 355 Started on a damp note and lacked the nostalgia power of Bond. Any sequel would run the serious risk of feeling forced and contrived through genre contrivance, ie 355 Just don’t have franchise-scale pull. D 2000 Charlie’s Angels The movie was a turning point for female-led action movies, but it was released more than two decades ago and the 2019 reboot failed to live up to its high watermark. 355 Could have filled the gap in the market but didn’t live up to the hype.
355 original meaning of the latter
Twists and turns obscure a shallow thematic message
355 The ending isn’t particularly deep, despite the number of twists throughout. The movie is a spy thriller at its core, and eschews heavy themes in favor of nail-biting action and intrigue. After all, the end means 355 The message can be said to promote the importance of unity against corruption. The team unites to take down Nick, putting aside their differing ideologies to seek revenge against an adversary who represents those who use international security agencies to forward their own personal agendas.
However, the theme behind 355 Completion is not a conventional focus. This is not a movie that leaves the audience with a lot to think about. 355 It’s a solid action-heavy spy-thriller that spins the traditionally masculine landscape of the genre, but it doesn’t do so with any significant degree of subtlety or deep meaning, even during the climax.
How 355 Completion Received
The end of 355 was not free from negativity
Had high hopes for 355 When the movie is announced. Unfortunately, however, the finished product was met with tepid reviews, with some critics responding well to Simon Kinberg’s female-led spy thriller. That being said, it is also an example of a film that divides opinion among critics and audiences, as evidenced by its score. 355 On Rotten Tomatoes.
With 24% critics and 86% audience scores, It’s clear that professional reviews were expecting more 355 Offered more than likely to deliver on the premise – offered more than enough to satisfy the general audience. The ending itself did not feature many negative reviews 355, Not least in the sense that it was singled out as a noticeably subpar aspect of the movie. Yet, it is not much appreciated, that suggests 355 The ending could have done more to make itself memorable.