Gina Rodriguez Thriller ‘Miss Bala’ is a generic Hollywood remake

Gina Rodriguez Thriller ‘Miss Bala’ is a generic Hollywood remake

In “Miss Bala,” a disappointingly bland genre exercise directed by Catherine Hardwicke (“Twilight,” “Thirteen”), a Los Angeles makeup artist heads to Tijuana, Mexico, to help her best friend enter a local beauty pageant. Big mistake. Amid a hail of bullets and a string of explosions, our innocent heroine is repeatedly abducted, exploited, threatened and terrorized … Read more