This is the tale of a sadly underutilized instrument of beauty finally being recognized and appreciated. After a slew of straight-to-video outings (Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror [1998]) and blink-and-you’ll-miss-her roles (A Night at the Roxbury [1998]), Latina hottie Eva Mendes writhed and quaked into mass ass consciousness as the busty, underdressed girlfriend of Denzel Washington in Training Day (2001).