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Name: Miss Bala
Released: 2012-1-20
Cast: Stephanie Sigman, Noe Hernandez, Lakshmi Picazo, Leonor Victoria, Irene Azuela

Miss Bala

R
1h 53m
2011

88%

An aspiring beauty queen finds herself in the wrong place at the worst possible time in this explosive crime thriller set amid Mexico’s increasingly violent drug war. After witnessing a shooting in a nightclub, the young woman is kidnapped and forced to work for ruthless gangsters in order to keep her dreams — and her family — alive.

Director:

Gerardo Naranjo

Producer:

Pablo Cruz

Writer:

Gerardo Naranjo, Mauricio Katz

Cast:

Stephanie Sigman, Noe Hernandez, Lakshmi Picazo, Leonor Victoria, Irene Azuela, James Russo

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

88%

Critics Consensus: Miss Bala's subject is loaded enough, but the frantic and muscular filmmaking puts this movie in a whole new league.

Reviews

Ex-Press.com

Katherine Monk

Hardwicke loads the barrel with everything any feminist action fan could hope for, but Miss Bala splatters shotgun-style, with fragments of narrative shrapnel piercing every scene, without hitting any specific dramatic targets.

The costumes are the key.

Naranjo puts on a master class in aesthetic storytelling where the substance equals the style, careful not to allow the film's large-scale action sequences to threaten to glorify the real-life exploits that inspired the story.

Once again, world cinema has demonstrated that a big budget and a well-known cast are not necessarily what is needed to make great cinema.

Except for its disappointingly tapered ending, Miss Bala... is an impressive, anxiety-ridden crime drama that can join the ranks of some of the best in its genre, from two of Mexico's best talents.

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FULL REVIEW

Additional Info

Genre:Action, Drama, Thriller
Release Date:January 20, 2012
Languages:Spanish
Captions:English, Spanish
Audio Format:
5.1

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