![]() The leader of the gang is Mace ( Jessica Chastain), an unflappable Ethan Hunt type from the CIA, whose professional partner and sometime lover Nick (Sebastian Stan) is apparently killed when the two are tracking the device in Paris. When a deadly piece of technology emerges – in this case, a sort of magical iPod that can hack into any computer system on the planet, and also makes aeroplanes explode – it falls to a group of international female operatives to retrieve it, against the orders of their respective agencies. Rather than doing anything novel or surprising with the basic spies-gone-rogue template, The 355 just repackages it in girl-power wrapping: it’s the film equivalent of a high-fructose, corn-syrup-based fizzy drink being passed off as chic in taller, slimmer cans. Instead, her code name has been borrowed for the title of this female-led espionage thriller – perhaps to suggest the film owes a meaningful creative debt to something beyond the first couple of Mission: Impossible films.Īlas, it does not. It’s strange that Hollywood hasn’t yet touched the spotty but enticing story of Agent 355: a woman who daringly spied for the rebels during the American Revolution, and whose true identity was never revealed.
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