Personal Ties Are Used As The Ultimate Liabilityĭuring the successful framing of Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible, former IMF director/returning character Eugene Kittridge (Henry Czerny) finds a pressure point and squeezes. Fowler gets his but only after being promoted in the CIA. In fact, this story looks like it doubles down on the mole angle harder than the first few seasons of 24, which is absolutely saying something. If you were to take Mission: Impossible’s gigantic twist where Jim Phelps (Jon Voight) is revealed to be very much alive, and an IMF traitor, that only covers half of what’s been repurposed here. On top of that, Mason’s actually-dead boss Larry Marks (John Douglas Thompson) is actually a turncoat too. What’s an agent to do when they lose their teammates and/or their superior in the middle of a mission? Well, if you’re The 355’s Mason Browne (Jessica Chastain), you’re eventually framed for murdering your teammate and your superior! The trouble is, in the case of fellow CIA agent Nick Fowler (Sebastian Stan), he’s not dead he’s just playing for the other team. A “Dead” Team Member/Superior Comes Back As A Baddie Diving deeper into the structure of this story, the laundry list of borrowed influences starts to add up, especially with one twist that happens to be revealed in the middle of the film. Again, Skyfall opens with a similar device that hews even closer to the NOC List. Were we merely dealing with a computer drive that has a lot of information/digital skeleton keys going out into the open, that wouldn’t be a sin. But we’re still dealing with a drive out in the open after a covert op tries to bust shadowy buyer Elijah Clarke (Jason Flemyng). While Ethan Hunt was accused of trying to sell the list of deep cover operatives and their identities, Simon Kinberg’s caper goes a little wider with its threat. Right out of the gate, The 355 set up its major conflict as something extremely similar to Mission: Impossible’s NOC List, and you could even see it in the trailers.
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Follow along as I rattle off five plot points that make this movie an unofficial Mission: Impossible remake.
That is, until The 355 took several key beats and wove them together in a movie that fails to capture the magic of Paramount’s still-going franchise. While a lot of espionage thrillers seem to borrow from Brian De Palma and Tom Cruise’s 1996 blockbuster (and yes, James Bond is guilty of that charge as well), no other movie has seemed like a wholesale retelling of that story. The only problem is, if you’re an aficionado of spy movies like I am, you’re going to notice that this movie is basically a remake of the first Mission: Impossible movie, and that’s not a compliment. Chastain is joined by the likes of Diane Kruger, Lupita Nyong'o, Penélope Cruz, and Fan Bingbing in a mission to save the world from technological danger. A new team of agents looking to form their own potential franchise, Ms. The world was recently introduced to the world of female-driven espionage depicted in the Jessica Chastain-led ensemble The 355. If you want to remain unspoiled, head to the nearest safe house of twist-free coverage on CinemaBlend. Warning: deep SPOILERS for The 355 are in play. Jessica Chastain talking in an office in The 355.
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