YMMV / The 355

• Captain Obvious Reveal: That Nick was the Dragon-in-Chief all along, and that he faked his death. Also Marks being a bad guy all along was rather predictable, as soon as he said "I identified his body".
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Jessica Chastain and Penelope Cruz play agents who briefly are on opposite sides. Two months after the film's release in 2022, Chastain (for The Eyes of Tammy Faye) and Cruz (for Parallel Mothers) would both be up for the Best Actress Oscar (Chastain won).
• Just Here for Godzilla: A number of people only saw the film for Sebastian Stan and to see him play a villain if they haven't already seen him in The Covenant.
• Moral Event Horizon: Nick killing Lin's father and ordering the execution of Muller and Abdul to get the women to hand over the drive. The only ones to walk out of it is Graciela's family.
• So Okay, It's Average: While not a groundbreaking or awful film by any means, this is the general consensus by viewers.
• Spiritual Adaptation: This is probably the closest we'll get to a Fox Force Five movie.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: One of the biggest complaints for the film is that it's too generic and doesn't focus on each of the rather impressive ladies and their relationships to each other and their loved ones enough. Too much time is spent on action set pieces and chase scenes rather than developing their relationships. The most egregious example is the relationship between Mace and Nick. After only two scenes, they hook up and then he seemingly dies, so without developing their friendship and then having it turn romantic, the audience feels virtually nothing for the characters nor their new relationship. Nick's betrayal should not have happened in the first act and then been revealed in the second act. It holds zero weight as the audience knows virtually nothing about him and it also makes no sense that he was either evil all along or switched sides to avoid being killed on mission, yet he still tries to get Mace to join him. There is nothing about Mace that indicates she'd be okay with turning coat on her own country and selling very bad weapons to very bad people, so it rings hollow that he even bothers asking her when we already know Mace is a straight shooter. Overall, the writing is undercooked and needed much more attention on each of the ladies and Nick in order to be a better story.

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