The Role: In her first film with best friend Salma Hayek, Cruz plays María, a Mexican farm girl who becomes a bank robber.

She smoulders in corsets, chaps and plaits.   

The Film: María and Sara (Hayek) steal from the rich and give to the poor; the poor Mexicans whose land has been taken away from them.

Written by Luc Besson (Léon, Fifth Element), it's a lightweight action-comedy.

Bandidas was unoffensively entertaining, and received lukewarm reviews.