Milla is like a female Arnold. Best in roles where she is present for style, not dialogue. The Fifth Element was her Terminator -- if you catch my drift.

This is true. Her best role may be one where she does not say much.

Of course her best roles don't require that she speak much. She is a model. I agree that she did a bang-up job in Fifth Element. But I wasn't all that impressed at all with The Messenger. Indeed, if the Messenger had had a better Joan it might have turned out to be a good film. I haven't seen Resident Evil, so I can't pass judgement.

Perhaps with a lot of acting school she might move up from marginal actress to average actress.

She also had a record out a few years ago. I wouldn't say it was great, but I kind of liked it. It certainly is better than a lot of other cross-over attempts. It was not dance music, what one would normally expect from a model--although I do believe she doesn't shave her pits...so maybe a little Lillith Fair feeling was to be expected??

Her work in Dazed and Confused (her first film) pretty much defined her talents. Linklater didn't exactly have the strongest female contingent to pick from (Michelle Burke and Joey Lauren Adams were relative unknowns, Parker Posey was working in soaps, etc.) She got to sing a song and plaster some makeup on some Kiss figures, but her bitterness at not getting more opportunity in such a cast didn't make sense. She deserves her fate.