Line #30 Film/The355


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:''"I'm putting together a team, and you're the best in the world at what you do."'']]
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4	->''"Remember the story that they told us about in training? About Washington's first female spy during the revolution. Agent 355, they called her. Because nobody knew her real name. Well, somebody did. They just didn't want the world to know it. But her legacy lives on."''
5	-->-- '''Mason "Mace" Browne'''
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7	''The 355'' is a 2022 action spy film starring Creator/DianeKruger, Creator/PenelopeCruz, Creator/JessicaChastain, Creator/LupitaNyongo, and Creator/FanBingbing and directed by Simon Kinberg (''Film/DarkPhoenix''). Produced by [=FilmNation=] Entertainment, the film was released on January 7, 2021 in the US and the UK/Ireland by [[Creator/{{Universal}} Universal Pictures]] with international releases following after.[[note]]The film was released in France on January 5 of that year as well as Germany and Mexico/Latin America and a few other territories, a few days later but distributed by other companies[[/note]]
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9	A top-secret weapon has fallen into the hands of a terrorist organization that is planning on starting WorldWarIII. The only one who can stop them and retrieve the weapon is a wild card CIA agent named Mason "Mace" Browne (Chastain), who must join forces with three other female agents: German agent Marie (Kruger), [=MI6=] computer specialist Khadijah (Nyong'o), and Colombian psychologist Graciela (Cruz), while also staying ahead of a mysterious woman, Lin Mi Sheng (Fan), who is tracking their every move.
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11	'''Previews:''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i200Q_UonJY Trailer 1]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV0s2S9reT0 Trailer 2]].
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13	!!''The 355'' contains examples of:
14	%%* ActionGirl: The main characters. %%How are they action girls instead of some other trope, such as FauxActionGirl?
15	* ActionSurvivor: Graciela isn't a spy like the other women; she's just a psychologist who happens to work for an intelligence agency. She panics when there's danger, is initially nervous handling a gun, and continually asks to go home. Nonetheless, she manages to step up to the plate when the time calls for it.
16	* AffectionateNickname: Mace refers to Khadijah as "Dij" while Marie calls Graciela "Graci". Mace herself is always addressed as such, with almost no mention of her real name "Mason".
17	* AmazonBrigade: The main protagonists are a group of women who use their combined skills to stop terrorists from getting their hands on a powerful weapon. Mace, Marie, Khadijah, and Mi Sheng are proficient with both firearms and hand-to-hand combat and their teamwork is best demonstrated during the final shoot-out. Graciela is the only one without prior combat experience, but she still manages to [[spoiler: shoot Nick]].
18	* AskAStupidQuestion: In their first meeting, Mace addresses Marie by her name.
19	-->'''Marie:''' How'd you know my name?\
20	'''Mace:''' We're spies, asshole.
21	* BackToBackBadasses: Mace, Marie, and Khadijah during the final battle while shooting at [[spoiler: Nick's]] men.
22	* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: [[AvertedTrope Averted.]] Mace and Marie were often very beaten-up after heavy altercations, with wounds to match.
23	* BigBadWannabe: Elijah Clarke is built up to be the BigBad, having been the one who stole the drive in the first place and kicking off the plot, with [[spoiler: Nick]] as his [[TheDragon Dragon]]. [[spoiler:Later, he's later OutGambitted by Nick, who shoots him dead in retaliation for sending a hit squad after him.]]
24	* BlackTieInfiltration: Mace, Khadijah, Marie, and Graciela go undercover at a high-class auction in Shanghai with comms in their earrings and cameras in their necklaces.
25	* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Formed by Marie, Khadijah, and Mace, respectively, when they're fighting side-by-side during the final shoot-out.
26	* BigNo: Given by [[spoiler:Khadijah when Nick has her boyfriend killed to force her to give up the device]].
27	* BrokenPedestal: Mace is rocked to discover [[spoiler:Marks was the one using the device to make a fortune and was using her to get it]].
28	* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:The Chinese poison Mi Sheng told Mace about is later used on Nick]].
29	%%* ComeWithMeIfYouWantToLive: This is how Mi Sheng (in a fast car) introduces herself to the other four protagonists.%%Zero-context example of the "X does this" variety. If you can replace the trope with the name of another trope - such as DynamicEntry - and the example still makes sense, then there's not enough context
30	* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler:Luis dies in Graciela's arms after being shot by a fellow Colombian agent. Graciela is deeply shaken by both his death and the betrayal]].
31	* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler: Nick and Marks are revealed to have been working for Clarke since the beginning, a revelation that stuns and horrifies Mace]].
32	%%* Five Man Band has been moved to discussion
33	* {{Foreshadowing}}: The reveal that [[spoiler:Marks]] was the bad guy was hinted given that [[spoiler:he told Mace he personally identified Nick's body and then sent her out on her own]].
34	* GoodAllAlong: [[spoiler:Mi Sheng is first shown killing Marks and then auctioning off the drive. It's later revealed that Marks was working for Clarke and Mi Sheng was using the auction to scout out terrorists, with no intention of actually selling the drive]].
35	* TheHeavy: [[spoiler:Nick]] drives most of the plot while Clarke simply directs from his mansion.
36	* HeroicBSOD: Done by [[spoiler:almost all the women after Nick kills Khadijah's boyfriend, Marie's mentor, Mi Sheng's father, and nearly Graciela's family]]. [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge They soon overcome it to seek payback]].
37	* HeroicSeductress: Graciela flirts with one of the auction attendees to get information about the drive.
38	* HidingInAHijab: Khadijah turns her headscarf into a makeshift hijab to blend in with the locals during the mission in Morocco. Graciela gets the idea that all of them should put on hijabs to take the drive from a mook, who is unable to tell which woman in the crowd took it from him.
39	* HopeSpot: Not once, not twice, but [[RuleOfThree three]] times.
40	** The team is able to secure the drive in Morocco, only for [[spoiler: several passenger airplanes to crash at the same time, indicating that the villains have somehow gotten it. They return to the CIA base to find Marks dead and the drive missing]].
41	** After the auction, [[spoiler:Mi Sheng reveals that she is on their side and has been keeping the drive safe, only for Nick to swarm Mi Sheng's hideout with his men and force the team to give him the drive by killing their loved ones]].
42	** During the final shoot-out, [[spoiler:Marie finds the drive, only for Nick to shoot her in the shoulder and nearly kill her and Mace, if not for the timely intervention of Graciela]].
43	* IHaveYourWife: [[spoiler:Nick threats to kill the women's loved ones until they hand over the drive. Graciela gives in and begs the other women to let him have the drive so he'll spare her family. Although the team eventually defeats him, he manages to kill Khadijah's boyfriend, Marie's mentor, and Mi Sheng's father, leaving only Graciela's family alive]].
44	* ItsPersonalWithTheDragon: [[spoiler:Nick]] answers to Clarke, but since he's the one who spends most of the movie trying to get the drive back, and later [[spoiler: goes as far as to execute Khadijah's boyfriend, Marie's mentor, and Mi Sheng's father]], he also ends up earning the heroines' ire.
45	* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Marie shoots a mook in the thigh to force him to tell the team everything he knows about the drive.
46	* LoveInterestTraitor: [[spoiler: Mace admits she has feelings for Nick during their mission in Paris and they sleep together. When Marks tells Mace that Nick is dead, she's utterly devastated and out for revenge. Then she finds out that he's been working to secure the drive for his terrorist boss]].
47	* MacGuffin: The device used to access any digital system on Earth.
48	* MentorOccupationalHazard: Marks and Jonah were brutally killed in the second half of the movie. [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] with the former, since he was a traitor who's just using Mace to get what he wanted. Mi Sheng's father was also executed by the end, though their relationship was unfortunately unexplored much in the movie.
49	* MoleInCharge: At the conclusion, [[spoiler:Nick Fowler has used his connections to get back into the CIA and get a promotion to lead the hunt for Mace and the others... until they confront him, feed him a dangerous poison, and reveal that they have given his superiors evidence of the scale of his corruption so that he will definitely be arrested later]].
50	* MultiNationalTeam: Mace is American, Marie is German, Khadijah is British, Graciela is Colombian, and Mi Sheng is Chinese. This is significant because Mace, Marie, and Graciela work for different national intelligence agencies that don't necessarily trust each other.
51	* NeverFoundTheBody: We never see [[spoiler: Nick]] get shot, and only have Marks' word to take after he says he personally ID'ed the body. [[spoiler: Sure enough, it later turns out Nick faked his death and Marks helped cover it up.]]
52	* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Surprisingly averted through most of the movie. The girls, while skilled, fought realistically against much larger and stronger opponents: using the environment and leverage as best they could to offset the difference in strength. [[spoiler:However, it's played straight by the end when Mace gave Nick one of these (though he was, admittedly, disoriented by a frickin' ''bomb'' exploding in his face).]]
53	* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: All five women work for different agencies from different countries, but find themselves brought together on the same crisis.
54	%%Reality Ensues is no longer a trope.
55	* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: The finale's massive hotel shootout ends with the local police storming in and arresting everyone.
56	* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: [[spoiler: At the end of the movie, Mace spikes Nick's drink with a drug that will knock him out, leaving him to be arrested.]]
57	* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Throughout the first part of the movie, Mace and Marie ''did not'' like each other, ''at all''. They're doing their missions together with spite barely held back by the presence of Khadijah and Gracie. [[spoiler:However, by the end of the movie, they've become FireForgedFriends who's, at worst, merely VitriolicBestBuds with each other.]]
58	* TitleDrop: "355" refers to a famous female spy during the American War of Independence, whose real name was never known and is only recorded by her codename; Mace mentions her during the final confrontation with the villain.
59	* TimeSkip: [[spoiler:Two months pass after the final battle, during which Nick kills Clarke, and Nick himself is later subdued and arrested by the heroines.]]
60	%%* TokenGoodTeammate: While all five women are dedicated to doing the right thing, Graciela is the only one of them who was not an active field agent when the crisis started, as she was a psychologist who just ended up going along with the others because she was the only one with access to certain vital information, only even picking up a gun near the end. %%How is Graciela a token good teammate? The example outright says that "all five women are dedicated to doing the right thing", and one of them not using a gun for most of the movie does not make the rest of them "not good"
61	* TookALevelInBadass: After spending the movie protesting she's not an agent, Graciela ends up [[spoiler:packing a gun for the finale and being the one to shoot Nick]].
62	* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The reveal that [[spoiler:Nick isn't dead]] should have been obvious given [[spoiler:his]] presence in several scenes in the trailers.
63	* TrainEscape: While their fighting over the drive, Marie tries to evade Mace by hiding in a subway tunnel. She manages to get onto the train and gets away.
64	* WouldHurtAChild: At one point, [[spoiler:the villains prove willing to threaten and potentially kill Graciela's young children to get the rest of the group to talk]].
65	* UndercoverAsLovers: Mace and Nick's cover during the Paris mission is posing as newlyweds on their honeymoon. They do have genuine feelings for each other and sleep together during the mission.
66	* VillainOpeningScene: The first scene is of Clarke having a meeting with a drug lord before shooting him dead and stealing the device.
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68	->''"We put ourselves in danger, so others aren't. We're the 355."''

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