I saw "Miss Bala", starring Gina Rodriguez-Jane the Virgin_tv, Deepwater Horizon; Ismael Cruz Cordova-Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, In the Blood; Matt Lauria-Parenthood_tv, Friday Night Lights_tv and Anthony Mackie-The Falcon in the Avengers movies, Abraham Lincoln:Vampire Hunter.
This is based on a Spanish_language film with the same name. For those not up on their Spanish, Bala means bullet in Spanish, so the title means Miss Bullet. Gina plays an Hispanic/American that goes to Mexico to visit a close friend-they grew up together. While there, she and her friend go to a night club and inadvertently get involved in a gang shoot out. Ismael is the gang leader doing the majority of the shooting out. Gina escapes the night club unharmed but her friend goes missing. One thing leads to another and Ismael takes Gina hostage and uses her to do things for him-like blowing up buildings-by telling her that he will help her find her missing friend, if she cooperates. Matt plays a DEA agent that tries to get Gina to work for him-she is a popular girl down south of the border-in taking down Ismael. Anthony plays a link in the drug trafficking that Ismael has going on. All in all, it's a descent little movie.
It's rated "PG-13" for gun violence, drug content, sexual content and language and has a running time of 1 hour & 44 minutes.
I enjoyed it and would probably buy it on DVD.
Review of Miss Bala
