It's that female "spy" thriller. And by "spy", I mean "lots of shootouts in busy public spaces". What's up with that?
A macguffin turns up that is really powerful, and the CIA decides they want it. However, their picking it up goes wrong when other agencies get involve, and everything starts falling apart until the female agents of those agencies decide they have to work together to get the device. And... repeat that again with slightly more people involve.
This movie is very generic. One big thing about this movie is the plot point that the action leads are women... but nothing really is done with that. There is nothing here that is particularly gendered in any direction, so this easily could have been men, women, neither, mix... It's so irrelevant. At least Ocean's Eight made the nod of "women don't get noticed".
But this movie title is referring to Agent 355, THE female Washington spy of the Culper Ring... and there is lip service to this.. but again, nothing is really done with that. At no point do the female agents go "hey, we're female agents, we should be female agents together" that would link them together in a group that could be a thing. They come together by accident, and, as I said, could be any collection of peoples.
So with that, this movie isn't doing anything outstanding. It tries with its name, but doesn't rise about generic action movie.
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