Gloria Fuentes (Gina Rodriguez) is a Latin-American makeup artist from Los Angeles who visits her best friend Suzu (Christina Rodlo) in Tijuana, Mexico. Her friend is entering the Miss Tijuana pageant , but she is threatened by cartel Las Estrellas . She goes back to Las Estrellas and is sent to San Diego with money and drugs attached to her car. The DEA is still tracking her. She arrives at the Border and is very scared that she will be discovered. She gets through without a problem and goes to the location in the GPS in San Diego, where she meets Jimmy (Anthony Mackie) . After entering a beauty contest : Baja California pegeant in Tijuana, the young woman witnesses drug-related murders and is forced to do the gang's bidding. Every day drags her deeper and corruption is pervasive ! . What alternative is there to death or prison? Who would you become to save your family?. Ordinary Becomes Extraordinary. Don't Mess with Family.
Fascinating and worrying drama about a young USA woman in a fine big-screen acting from Gina Rodriguez who finds herself unavoidably thrust into a drug cartel's blood feud as an unwitting pawn and her inescapable predicament leads to dire life or death consequences , in which surviving will require all of her cunning, inventiveness, and strength. Based on the Spanish-language movie ¨Miss Bala¨ (2009) by Gerardo Naranjo with Stephanie Sigman , Juan Carlos Galván , Arturo Guerrero , Noé Hernández , Irene Azuela and James Russo . Of course this wouldn't work so well if the acting wasn't first class, and it is indeed, Gina Rodriguez what a fantastic job, really makes us care for the character as the valiant you Gloria who finds a power she never knew she had when she is drawn into a dangerous world of cross-border crime. However , there're some incredible situations in Rambo style as the starring takes on a heavily-armed drug gang.
The motion picture was professionally directed by Catherine Hardwicke , though with no originality because copies the premises of the previous film. Hardwicke's first film as a director was the Sundance winner Thirteen which explored the transition into teenage years with an authenticity that still captures young audiences (1.3 billion Tik Tok engagements.) . Hardwicke often empowers female leads (Miss Bala, Red Riding Hood, Plush, Thirteen) . Hardwicke directed Lords of dogtown before she became best known as the director of Twilight, which launched the blockbuster franchise and has since earned over three billion dollars. Recently her indie film Prisoner's adughter premiered at Tiff 2022 and Dreams in the witchhouse dropped on Netflix October 2022 as part of Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities. Rating : 6/10.
