It's Kakra Nunoo-Brown and Emily Rose Hernandez versus Marc Anthony Wazer and Daniel Moen in action-drama "Bang Bang Betty" a well put together, modern, exploitation feature film with a host of supporting characters - most notably Gerald Parrish as a father and big-brother figure.
Directed by Alexander T. Hwang and DP is Adam Beck; the other notable crew lead in this is the stunt coordinator Gary Choi (and yes you do see him die) and Rising Star Stunt Team (yes many of them die) on camera.
The film takes visual advantage of the exterior locations in New Mexico and Mexico, and even the interior scenes have attention to detail in their set-up.
High quality looks and editing, this is a modern version of an exploitation movie where the story takes on consideration of men and women.
The script is by Deanna Gomez with the story by Gomez and Hwang.
The story has a few coincidences... but sometimes in a smaller town or small city everybody does end up knowing everybody.
With a lower budget (no car chases, but people in a hurry from time to time in their cars), sometimes moving or fast healing wounds are a distraction, but overall worth watching from beginning to end to see who will win and why.
Some of the best performances, lines and background information are in the second half of the film - the mysterious, suspense elements of who has loyalty to whom - and what their true motivations are enough to make it worth watching to the end.
With a large cast, each of the main characters and even some of the tertiary characters have their moments in further setting the scene and situation.
For me the violence was the reason for the 18 plus rating, but others may notice some of the language nearly as much. If they had a 24 plus rating for violence, I might even go that far. Trigger warning for PTSD from military service or gun violence victims.
