MISS BALA (2012) *** Riveting drama about a young Mexican woman (sexy newcomer and Rosario Dawson doppelganger Stephanie Sigman in a fine big-screen debut) whose ambition to be a contestant in a beauty contest instead finds herself unavoidably thrust into a drug cartel's blood feud as an unwitting pawn and her inescapable predicament leads to dire life or death consequences. Based on a true account of the unending drug war South-of-the-Border and produced by actors Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna (and co-star James Russo as a corrupt DEA agent), novice filmmaker Gerardo Naranjo certainly has the cinematic chops as a director with some ingenious camera movements and eliciting a heartbreaking performance from his equally green partner-in-crime leading lady.