Miss Bala (2011)
Directed by Gerardo
Naranjo this Mexican film stars Stephanie Sigman, James Russo and
Irene Azuela. A young woman that aspires to win a beauty pageant gets
caught up the drug war that rages on the Mexican border.
This film claims to be
loosely based on real events but it seems more the case that real
events were the inspiration for a fictitious plot. What the film does
well is firmly route itself in a realistic world, showing how
innocents get caught up in a war they want no part of. Had this film
been made in America I think the tendency would have been to over
play the action sequences but the low key nature of this film really
works well.
4/5
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