The 355 | 2022 | PG-13 | – 4.7.5

Why is “The 355” rated PG-13? The MPAA rating has been assigned for “sequences of strong violence, brief strong language, and suggestive material.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes an implied sex scene with partial nudity, a few kissing scenes, the murder of two men while their loved ones watch, many scenes of many people fighting with hand-to-hand combat and knives and guns with several bloody wounds shown and several deaths, planes exploding midair and we understand that the passengers and crew perished, many arguments, and at least 1 F-word and other strong language. Read our parents’ guide below for details on sexual content, violence & strong language.

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After two CIA agents (Jessica Chastain and Sebastian Stan) are assigned to find a weapon that could cause a global catastrophe, their plan quickly goes awry and they are left to enlist the help of an international band of agents to have any hope of prevailing. Also with Penélope Cruz, Bingbing Fan, Diane Kruger, Lupita Nyong’o, Jason Flemyng, John Douglas Thompson, Pablo Scola and Sylvester Groth. Directed by Simon Kinberg. Several lines of dialogue are spoken in Romanian, Chinese, Spanish, French, German and Arabic with English subtitles. [Running Time: 2:02]

The 355 SEX/NUDITY 4

 – A woman unbuttons her blouse and she and a man kiss and fall back onto a bed (we see her cleavage, her bra and abdomen). A man and a woman kiss, he kisses her forehead and she pulls away. A man and a woman kiss. A man and woman kiss and she bites his lip (we see a bit of blood). A man and a woman lie in bed holding each other (we see his bare chest and shoulders and her bare shoulders and cleavage).
► A woman flirts with a man to distract him and touches his knee. A man suggests that he and his partner should become a couple and she declines. A man and a woman pretend to be a married couple while undertaking a mission.
► Women wear low-cut tops and dresses that reveal cleavage in many scenes. Women wear low-cut cocktail dresses that reveal cleavage and bare shoulders and backs.

The 355 VIOLENCE/GORE 7

 – A monitor shows video screens of several people with gunmen standing behind them as women plead with the gunmen not to shoot them (they are families and children); we see one man on the monitor shot and falls on the floor, another man on the monitor is shot and a man and two children are threatened but not harmed. A woman detonates an explosive and several men are thrown through the air and lay motionless on the floor.
► A man shoots a man in the head and then another man in the chest (we see blood on the man’s chest) as many heavily armed people enter the house and gunfire is exchanged and several people are struck: one injured man is shot again a few times. A man shoots another man five times (off-screen). A woman shoots a man in a crowded market and another on a rooftop (they fall dead with little visible blood). A woman puts her gun in her purse and uses it to shoot a man in an alley. A man alone in an office is attacked, knocked to the floor and shot below the frame. A man shoots a woman in the arm (we see blood).
► Several men surround a man in a crowded market and stab and hit him repeatedly (it is referred to as a “kill box”), and then walk away quickly unnoticed. Several women are surrounded by armed agents in an office and when the lights go out gunfire is exchanged and some punches are thrown (we see a man with a bruised face). A woman takes a man’s gun and shoots at him as he speeds away in a car. Armed people enter an apartment and a man holds a gun under a woman’s chin (the man has bruises and blood on his face from a beating). A woman scales a tall building, while another woman is taken out of a room by two men, and she fights the men with kicks and hits them with a long pole repeatedly until an explosion blows people around the room,; the first woman is thrown over a balcony but clings to the railing, she fights a man, he pushes her back over the railing, and she slams him into the railing. A woman fights with a man with many punches exchanged, kicks and throws and the woman wraps the man’s tie around his neck strangling him; she eventually slams his head in a door a couple of times and walks away (we do not see his condition). A gun is held to another man’s head and he is told that he is cursed because he is helping to kill other believers; the man is stabbed in the leg and he is told that he will bleed to death (we see blood and the man screams). A woman in a café spills coffee on a man, steals his bag and runs away as another woman chases her and the man chases another man from the café; the women barge through people in a crowded walkway and market, one woman steals a motorcycle and speeds away and the other woman shoots at things to block her path; the woman then shoots the motorcycle and the other woman tumbles down a flight of stairs and into a subway station. A woman runs along subway tracks and shatters lights as she passes them, another woman follows her and struck from the shadows; the two women fight as a train barrels toward them and one woman jumps across the tracks and nearly struck (neither is struck).
► A man chases another man through busy streets and into traffic, one man tumbles over the hood of a car and they continue to run; they run into an alley where one man draws a gun and they struggle; one man runs away and grunts holding his side. Two men fight and one is shot (he gasps from his wound and we see some blood), the other leaves with a bag as people in the building scream and run. Two women fight with punching and kicking and throwing and one woman draws a knife. A woman hits a man in the back of the head with a gun. A woman kicks another woman down a flight of stairs and a man jumps on a storage container on a ship; a woman jumps onto the container and slams into it hard clinging onto a net to pull herself up, another woman rides on a cherry picker toward the ship as the man speeds away on a small boat and two women shoot at him (he is not struck). A man holds a gun on another man and the gunman is struck and kicked by another man. A woman disguises herself by wrapping a sheet around her head and enters a men-only bathhouse following a man; three other men surround her and she fights with them, stabbing one man and he falls into a cart (we see some blood).
► A passenger plane explodes and crashes into a mountain and we hear of a power outage in a large Colombian city. Several planes are shown crashing and we hear references to terrorist attacks. Two women holding guns are surrounded by many armed men and the women put their guns down. A vehicle speeds through crates of fish on a pier and the driver shoots in the air as other men in the area shoot back and forth. Two women hold guns on each other as others try to convince them to stand down. A woman wearing high heels climbs on a garbage can and into a vent in a women’s restroom, she pulls herself into the vent and puts the grate back in place. Many heavily armed people outside a house listen to a conversation among men inside the house; it is implied that they anticipate a drug deal. Three women bump into a man in a crowded market and steal a phone from him.
► A man threatens someone over the phone saying, “A bullet to your head.” A woman talks about crashing into a cow and says, “It nearly killed me.” A man and a woman argue and she tells him, “I am not a child,” and he replies, “Stop acting like one.” We hear that a man was shot and died. A woman talks about turning in her own father for being a double agent. A woman says, “James Bond always ends up alone.” A woman asks a man, “Are you trying to work me?” A man accuses another man of being beaten by a bunch of girls. A woman talks about someone hiding something in his anus and refers to the smell.
► A woman attaches a silencer to a gun. A man and a woman spar with punches and kicks and throws and the man is pinned on the mat. A woman is shown with a deep cut on her face after a fight with a man.

The 355 LANGUAGE 5

 – At least 1 F-word, 1 obscene hand gesture, 2 scatological terms, 3 anatomical terms, 9 mild obscenities, name-calling (sweetheart, ghost, idiot, cliché, stupid, spies, screwed up, normal person, rogue players, such a tough guy [to a woman], bitter, a Harem of women in headscarves), exclamations (dial it down, bloody), 1 religious profanity (GD), 5 religious exclamations (e.g. God, oh my God, thank God, Allah, My God). | profanity glossary |

The 355 SUBSTANCE USE

 – A man drinks a glass of whiskey and realizes that he has been poisoned. A man offers another man a glass of wine and a cigar and the second man declines as the first man drinks from his own glass, four women drink beers in a bar, a man drinks a glass of whiskey, a woman drinks a glass of liquor, a man drinks a glass of whiskey, and a woman spills champagne on a man in an auction.

The 355 DISCUSSION TOPICS

 – Romance, friendship, betrayal, techno-terrorism, secrets, trust, revenge, control, duty, mercenaries, real life, cyber warfare, double agents, enemies, KGB, international cooperation.

The 355 MESSAGE

 – The enemy of my enemy is my friend.