Miss Bala starts out with a quick look into the friendship between Gloria (played by the stunning Gina Rodriguez) and her close childhood friend Suzu (played by the equally stunning Cristina Rodlo), which spans California into Tijahuana, Mexico. While visiting a nightclub to rub elbows with the right people in light of Suzu‘s entering a beauty contest that the duo is dead set on her winning, the pair is caught in the middle of a gang-related crossfire for being in the right place at the wrong time. Once separated from her friend, Gloria frantically tries to find Suzu, at which point things go from bad to worse.
In the early stages of her search, Gloria is played by multiple sides of this war. Feeling the need to act quickly as opposed to methodically, she ends up getting deeply involved in a web of violence too deeply rooted for her to comprehend. However, Gloria’s frenetic nature changes from compulsory to calculated once she realizes just how much of a pawn she is in this game. This is when Gloria becomes resourceful and tactful, while allowing the actress to come out of her shell a bit more and engender within the audience a desire to see the protagonist navigate her way through this maze successfully.
However, this maze does not present anything overbearingly different from your run-of-the-mill cartel/drug movie plot. While there are a number of moments punctuated with loads of explosions and gunfire, nothing stands out one way or another. Ultimately, Gloria’s character is revealed as another example of female empowerment; but, Gina Rodriguez’s acting is what I came away thinking about mostly. I’m excited to see her future on-screen endeavors; but, this particular one is nothing to write home about. It only runs about 90 minutes and is a fine enough film to pass the time with; but, there’s no need to rush to theaters to watch Miss Bala, which gets 2 out of 5 reps from me.
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