Miss Bala

Gloria Fuentes is no beauty queen.

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Director Catherine Hardwicke puts a gun in the hand of Rodriguez’s abused heroine but still manages to deprive her of her power as a survivor

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“Miss Bala” fails both when judged on its own merits and when compared to its predecessor. Just like Gloria in the film itself, Rodriguez is the only hero here. She works hard to elevate the material, but both she and her character deserve so much better than this.

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Miss Bala never quite delivers on its potential and lets down the woman at its center.

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In Gerardo Naranjo’s 2012 drama, “Miss Bala,” an aspiring beauty queen is caught in the crosshairs of a cartel strike.

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This by-the-book Hollywood remake of the 2011 Mexican art-house movie transforms a passive victim into a new kind of empowered action heroine.

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Gina Rodriguez's killer action heroine saves an uneven 'Miss Bala'

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As things are chugging along, it feels fairy tale-esque, like Beauty and the Beast crossed with a telenovela.

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Jane the Virgin’ star goes into gun-toting, ass-kicking mode with this American remake of a Mexican thriller about a reluctant drug mule

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Gina Rodriguez stars in Catherine Hardwicke's remake of the 2011 Mexican film about a young woman who battles a drug cartel to save her friend.

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This version, in the dreariest Hollywood-remake tradition, turns a grim, morally ambiguous story into a fable of empowerment. That might be kind of fun if it didn’t feel so tired and timid.

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The story of a young woman caught up in narco gang warfare in Tijuana is loaded with action cliches.

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The film is content to paint Mexico as a morass of poverty, decay, and turbulence that exists in a moral void.

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