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Hardwicke sticks to her guns meaning theres no play in the gunplay, only horror.
Rodriguezs Gloria has no connection to guns or crime.
(Sample dialogue, Gina to Suzu: I always felt like I was a stranger here.
You made me feel like family.)
Do those services include sexual ones?
The threat of sexual assault hangs overMiss Bala, but Hardwicke walks a thin precariously thin line.
But Rodriguez never for an instant signals romantic longing.
Even when shes gratified, shes terrified.
Her Gloria issonotan actress that you want to scream, Live the part if you want to live!
But were with Rodriguez every second, even when her character behaves inexplicably.
Rodriguez has a face that seems naturally suited to comedy, that fits characters striving to project gumption.
And still still Hardwicke resists giving us a badass suck-on-thisblam!!!climax.
I admire the hell out of that.
The gunfights are a hash, but anexpressivehash.
Gloria knows shes always one step away from a bullet in the head.
Ive probably madeMiss Balasound richer than it is.
Theres only so much you might do with a script this over-the-top.
(The ambiguity in the originalMiss Balawas more effective.)
And you think,Shell never sleep well again.
