Like a cheap piñata, _Tijuana Bible_ is messy and stylish and beaten up but no matter how hard you hit that, you won't get much out of it. The story of a drug addict veteran (because all cinema veterans are mentally ill ptsd addicts / alcoholics) 'with a past' 'has to' help a young woman find her brother in the underbelly of Tijuana. _Tijuana Bible_ is an exercise in style that takes itself far too seriously, and is all the worse for it.