‘The 355’ Theatrical Poster
From Simon Kinberg, the director of X-Men: Dark Phoenix, comes The 355, a female-led actioner starring Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty), Lupita Nyong’o (Black Panther), Diane Kruger (Inglourious Basterds), Penélope Cruz (Vanilla Sky) and Bingbing Fan (The White Haired Witch of Lunar Kingdom).
It should be noted that Marion Cotillard (The Dark Knight Rises) dropped out of the project for “personal reasons” (she can be seen in one of the film’s earlier press photos).
When a top-secret weapon falls into mercenary hands, a wild card CIA agent joins forces with three international agents on a lethal mission to retrieve it, while staying a step ahead of a mysterious woman who’s tracking their every move.
The film also stars Sebastian Stan (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier), Édgar Ramírez (Point Break), Emilio Insolera (Sign Gene: The First Deaf Superheroes) and Jason Wong (Jarhead 2: Field of Fire).
The 355 hits theaters on January 7, 2022. Until then, catch an action featurette, followed by a recent Trailer:
With a cast like that, I’d be totally down if it weren’t for the folks behind the camera. We won’t know what Kinberg’s capable of until the new X-Men movie hits, and a story from the writer of Catwoman (though I *do* love Harriet the Spy) doesn’t exactly sound like fun.
Considering recent events like the formation of Aukus and alike, seeing the Chinese flag alongside the UK and American ones on the poster already make this movie a relic from a bygone era even before its hit the screens.
I caught this in the afternoon, and it was good fun. Nothing original or groundbreaking, but it’s obvious that Simon Kindberg is a fan of spy and high kinetic action thrillers, and did a much better job here than on X-Men Dark Phoenix.
The cast looked like they enjoyed themselves throughout the film and the action scenes are well filmed and choreographed. It’s a nice January flick.