You always hear stories of producers interfering and taking over the directors vision. And here you have a producer, who has now directed 2 terrible movies that werent well done by him. Clearly they should just stick to supplying and making money and leave the art/skill of directing to the professionals.

I think The 355 is suffering from a bit of gender bias because it's definitely not as bad as the reviews say. I've seen many action films with predominantly male casts that are much worse than this but have higher ratings. Does The 355 reinvent the spy or action genres? No. But does it kick a lot of ass and provide for a fun Saturday night blockbuster? Absolutely! Sure the plot and antagonists are a bit shallow, but there are some impressive fight sequences, a couple of twists, and some raw emotion that provide enough substance for viewers.

Each of the cast members holds their own in this action-packed, international adventure (there are 3 Oscar winners in the cast!). You're not seeing anything new here, but what you are seeing is high enough quality to leave you satisfied and thinking "I'd definitely watch a sequel of these badass women taking down bad guys!"

Verdict: Watch it.

Considering the cast, this is a bit of a mess.

The story makes no sense, even if the McMuffin wasn't magical in the first place, at any of the multiple points that they have it, they could just destroy it.

The bad guy could just kill them all but just walks away, leaving them in an apartment with its own armoury in the next room.

In particular the timing and continuity is just a shambles.

Here is my favourite example. The gang are following a suspect in Morocco. He goes in to a men-only bath-house. They realise that neither of the white girls can follow him, so the black girl comes down from remote overwatch, changes her outfit, buys some soap to give her an excuse to enter the building, meets her team-mate outside, goes in to the building to follow the perpetrator, and he is still making his way down the same 20ft hallway. If they hadn't made it a thing then you might not notice, but they go out of their way to telegraph all the steps she has to take!