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Who do you work for? http://www.caughtinthecrossfire.com/azbluecomcontact-d654.pdf#investigation http://www.azblue.com/members.aspx Malkina is no average ice queen baddie. Adorned with elaborate spotted tattoos that match her two pet cheetahs, skintight dresses and silver nails so shiny they look like weapons, Malkina is more like a sci-fi monster, a bit of theatricality dropped into the scrubby Texas desert. Her intense presence matches the film's over boiled dialogue, handing Diaz lines like "To see quarry killed with elegance is moving to me," or allowing a side character played by Bruno Ganz to meditate, "We announce to the darkness that we will not be diminished by the brevity of our lives." With most of the action takes place offscreen the characters do a lot of talking, but it's mostly in metaphor and grand pronouncements that take nearly the entire scene to untangle. And with new characters constantly arriving and disappearing, and too much time given to tangential moments like Diaz's attention-grabbing sex scene atop a car windshield, it takes constant work to know where the story is going – work that this fairly rote and bloody saga doesn't ever earn.
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