{"id":1218106,"date":"2022-01-15T14:05:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T19:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1218106"},"modified":"2022-01-15T14:05:12","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T19:05:12","slug":"the-355-review-low-rent-feminist-actioner-filled-with-man-hating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-355-review-low-rent-feminist-actioner-filled-with-man-hating\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;The 355&#039; Review: Low-Rent, Feminist Actioner Filled with Man-Hating"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-355-review-low-rent-feminist-actioner-filled-with-man-hating%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1218106&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/the-355-still-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">By Thursday, <em>The 355\u2019s<\/em> per-screen average had dumped <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/release\/rl2572518145\/?ref_=bo_hm_rd\">to $91<\/a>. Intrigued by its historic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2022\/01\/09\/nolte-the-355-is-another-woketard-box-office-flop\/\">box office failure<\/a> last weekend, I decided to give it a look Thursday. Could any movie with that kind of star power really be as bad as advertised?<\/p>\n<p>Well, I will say this \u2026 I was never bored. At 122 minutes, <em>The 355<\/em> is 20 minutes too long, but it clips along at a solid pace that keeps you from looking at your watch. Unfortunately, this was not true for the movie I saw immediately afterward, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2022\/01\/15\/scream-2022-review-more-tedious-than-terrifying\/\">the dreadful<\/a>&nbsp;<em>Scream<\/em> (2022).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The problem with <em>The 355<\/em> is two-fold. First, although its production budget is estimated to be as high as $75 million, it unspools like a direct-to-video rip-off of the <em>Mission: Impossible\/Bourne<\/em> franchises. The stakes, naturally, involve The End Of The World. The MacGuffin is a device that allows you to plug it into a laptop and crash planes, launch nukes, read anyone\u2019s email, drain their bank accounts. There\u2019s nothing it can\u2019t do.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s also a lot of globe-trotting and foot chases, intricate heists and hand-to-hand combat, and a ticking clock. But it all feels so second and third tier, so very low rent.<\/p>\n<p>The other problem is the script, which is full of lines like \u201cGet some rest, you\u2019re gonna need it\u201d and \u201cWhen you live a life of lies, it\u2019s hard to know what\u2019s true,\u201d and \u201cThis could start World War III\u201d and \u201cThe enemy of my enemy is my friend.\u201d Then there are outright howlers like, \u201cA girl really does need a guy to explain it all to her\u201d and \u201cYou got&nbsp;beaten by a bunch of girls.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><strong><em>Watch below:&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Worst of all are all the logic leaps\u2026<\/p>\n<p>More than once, our heroines get their hands on the MacGuffin and don\u2019t immediately destroy it, which allows the Bad Guys to retrieve it. Thanks for nothing, girls.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and at one point, even after they\u2019ve had no problem killing innocent hostages, the Bad Guys just let our heroines go.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>At one point, Chastain pulls a huge gun with an attached silencer out of her \u2026 sundress? She even carried extra mags with her.<\/p>\n<p>The fight scenes are almost all ridiculous, especially a long one where Chastain bests a 240-pound bodyguard, a guy who could knock her flat with a slap.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Jessica Chastain plays Mace, a CIA operative who\u2019s (naturally) gone rogue.<\/p>\n<p>Lupita Nyong\u2019o is a former MI6 agent. <em>One last job.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Penelope Cruz is a psychologist for a Columbian spy agency and the character who makes the least amount of sense. Cruz is a legitimate talent and star, and how she\u2019s wasted in this sad-sack role should be a felony.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Diane Krueger works for German intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Fan Bingbing is a Chinese operative who can do anything with hot water and herbs.<\/p>\n<p>The honeys join forces and bond and save the world and don\u2019t have much chemistry, and it\u2019s all rather unexceptional.<\/p>\n<p>What is exceptional is the man-hating. All the men in the movie are either villains or quiche-eating, stay-at-home cucks who take care of the kids, cook, and wait diligently for the little women to come home after a hard day of saving the world.<\/p>\n<p>Why does Hollywood believe man-hating will sell?<\/p>\n<p>In the real world, outside the Woketard Bubble, women actually like men. Most women have dads and brothers and boyfriends and husbands they appreciate, which means they\u2019re put off by movies like <em>The 355<\/em> that reduce the sex to villains and toxic boyfriends and pussies who make moon eyes on Skype and mewl things like, <em>Be safe. Come home soon.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There are at least three shots of guys in the kitchen cooking, sometimes with a child in their arms.<\/p>\n<p>And if men are so awful, why are feminists so eager to act like men? In <em>The 355<\/em>, the women do tons of guy stuff: save the world, fight, pull guns on each other, bond over bottles of beers, call each other \u201cassholes,\u201d wear the pants in the family\u2026 Apparently, we\u2019re so awful the ladies want to be us.<\/p>\n<p>You can see what attracted the actresses to <em>The 355<\/em>, the promise of a Big-Ass Franchise, a golden goose that would make them all fabulously wealthy and famous and iconic. Well, they only have themselves to blame for this embarrassing failure. The producers, which include Chastain and at least one other woman, were handed around $75 million to make that dream come true. But instead of holding out for an intelligent script (co-written by a woman) that would entertain <em>everyone,<\/em> they went Woketard\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I\u2019m sure they will still blame the patriarchy for this failure. They\u2019re probably sitting around in an uptight snit thinking, <em>Men are too insecure to go see our movie!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, well, even feminists are avoiding it.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Follow John Nolte on Twitter <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NolteNC\"><strong><em>@NolteNC<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong>. <em>Follow his Facebook Page <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JohnNolteNC\/?skip_nax_wizard=true\"><strong><em>here<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Thursday, The 355\u2019s per-screen average had dumped to $91. Intrigued by its historic box office failure last weekend, I decided to give it a look Thursday. Could any movie &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1218106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1218106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1218106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1218106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1218106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}