Miss Bala

Gina Rodriguez stars as Gloria,  in this Female Fighting Back version of Sicario 2.  What starts as a promising set up (2 women go to a club and bad s@#$ starts to occur...) winds up in a mess or stereotypes:  drug cartels, forced prostitution, American DEA saviors).

The fact that it was "filmed in Mexico" using majority Mexican persons doesn't make up for this shabby script.  It devolves into a Born in East L.A., which is pretty silly in this day and age.  Including Gina, there are really few positive or redeeming characters here.   Maybe the little brother...

 In the underworld, everyone is a gangster.  You'd think that in a country of 130 million people you'd get some better stories than this:  e.g. Coco.  But perhaps those good stories only exist in Hollywood's imagination.

Directed by McAllen, TX native  Catherine Hardwicke.

* * * due to good aerial photography .