Trashy fun abounds in this above-average big screen telenovela that introduced the world to Salma Hayek. (Her breakout performance is as assured a calling card as any left on film.) The multi-character narrative comes split into four consecutive chapters, with the individual threads all commencing at one location, at the same point in time, and with the identical flip and clack of a single domino. The first three segments are named for the characters whose stories they cover, while the concluding passage asthmatically scrambles to tie up more loose ends than the bordello that houses the film’s bloody climax. The narrative is surprisingly lucid, particularly when one considers the logjam of unanswered questions it leaves. (1995) — Scott Marks
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