Miss Bala

After a tenacious, savvy, butt-kicking, Mexican-American Los Angeles makeup artist (Gina Rodriguez) goes to Tijuana to visit her longtime best friend (Cristina Rodlo), who has a young son, and she disappears during a shootout at a nightclub in Catherine Hardwicke's gripping, violent, dark, factually inspired, action-packed, 104-minute remake of the 2011 film, which was Mexico's entry for the Oscars, she ends up in the hands of unscrupulous Mexican police controlled by a corrupt police chief (Damián Alcázar), a ruthless drug lord (Ismael Cruz Córdova) who forces her to run drugs and money across the border for the cartel, and a callous DEA agent (Matt Lauria) while she desperately searches for her kidnapped friend.
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