Official Discussion: Miss Bala [SPOILERS]
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Summary:
While American tourist Gloria is on vacation in Tijuana, Mexico her life is turned upside down when her best friend Suzu disappears and she is kidnapped by a dangerous drug cartel. With both the criminals and the DEA on her tail she will have to play both sides and use all her cunning in order to survive and save her friend.
Director:
Catherine Hardwicke
Writers:
screenplay by Gareth Dunnett-Alcocer
Cast:
Gina Rodriguez as Gloria
Ismael Cruz Córdova as Lino
Anthony Mackie as Jimmy
Aislinn Derbez as Isabel
Matt Lauria as Brian
Cristina Rodlo as Suzu
Ricardo Abarca as Pollo
Thomas Dekker as Justin
Rotten Tomatoes: 38%
Metacritic: 40/100
After Credits Scene? No
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Really bad movie. The plot is hilariously contrived and stupid, but too self-serious to be fun. Nothing is engaging about it and nothing is exciting. It's a really fast movie that jumps from random contrived plot point to random contrived plot point, but everything is so boring and uninteresting that it feels slow.
Disappointing as someone who likes Gina.
After watching the original version from 2011, this remake was difficult to watch... the original director Gerardo Naranjo wasn't even involved lol... Straight garbage.....watch the 2011 version
Gerardo Naranjo was so good that they had him direct 3 episodes of Narcos back in 2016
Catherine Hardwicke, the current director, is known for Twilight
But she got Twilight on the strength of Thirteen, which is a fantastic movie.
Feel like this should have been a series and not a movie. I felt everything was happening to fast for any character development.
Closest I've ever come to walking out of a movie, stuck around just to see if any of this stupidity resolved itself in the end and the answer was no it just kept getting dumber right till the last 5 minutes of the movie.
It's like a telemundo soap opera somehow became a US movie.
Which I think was the actual case.
I think Gina Rodriguez was miscast in this, but I also don't think there's an actress who could actually pull off Gloria in this movie. It's an insane role.
There's a very creepy, intriguing movie in here, about a drug dealer who becomes obsessed with a young woman and inflicts his presence/world upon her, and her slowly learning how to play him in order to reclaim her agency/freedom/find her friend. Of course, thats trampled over by a half-dozen clumsy, useless scenes and Lino's absurd, circuitous plan to kill the chief of police, which is apparently really hard to do for some reason.
The CIA thing at the end... what the fuck was that? Why was that? I just watched this woman bungle through hell to rescue her friend, and her triumphant ending is being recruited by the CIA? And the twist is that the CIA supplied semiautomatic rifles to a drug cartel while allowing an American national to suffer in their custody? But we're still supposed to think they're heroes?
Gina Rodriguez had been annoying me lately for reasons you can Google, that I won't go into here, but I love JtV and I love HER in it, but this was precisely as everyone has said. Lip service feminism where she had absolutely no agency outside of what the men on both sides wanted for her.
You're reading way too much into it. We all know that LatinX are the least represented group and the lowest paid. Its not a Black Vs Brown thing either.
IT's not a black vs hispanics thing but she acts as if it is, correcting people when they specifically give praise to black people. And she even said that her father was dark skinned which he really isn't.
You’re...you’re not referencing LibertyX? It’s... been... so... long...
"Latino" preferably. Though it's pretty interchangable in the vernacular, to be honest. "Latinx" is just the latest bit of cultural appropriation to rob us of our cultural identity.
yeah sure, latino is a word I think makes sense. I don't like all of this new political jargon
In a lot of languages, the masculine is the default for a-gender or gender neutrality. English and Spanish included. I get the desire for more specificity, but I don't wonder if it's just another push to casually erase the distinct cultures that make us "diverse". Truth to tell, I'm rather tired of the subtle and overt efforts at genocide or "educating" us. It all leads to the same end.
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