Mikes Film Talk

Trigger Warning is all about Jessica Alba taking on the bad guys in her hometown. Netflix has been helping the 2024 trend of bringing out action heavy vehicles. Although the troubled film was actually finished back in 2021.

Sadly there does not seem to be a lot of love for this troubled production. It seems to have been soundly panned by just about everyone. Sure the plot is “old as time” (As one reviewer put it.) but Trigger Warning still works, to a degree.

The story

Jessica Alba is Parker, a special ops type who comes back to bury her father. The front of the movie is full of flashbacks. Parker now owns her dad’s bar and the mine next to it. Michael Anthony Hall is a senator, his son Jesse is the local sheriff (played by Mark Webber) and his other son, Elvis (Jake Weary) is the town bad boy.

Parker and Jesse were a couple once upon a time.

She starts investigating her father’s death and finds that corruption is running rampant in the area.

The main Cast Trigger Warning

Musings

Trigger Warning with its 20 percent critic score and a paltry 16 percent from audiences feels like it should be avoided at all costs. Sure the plot is one we have seen before but is it really that bad?

I don’t believe it is.

Jessica Alba cut her teeth on action genre productions. Dark Angel ring any bells? So she is at least convincing as a kick arse spy. Hall gives great “bad guy.”

The rest of the cast deliver pretty well, but the vast majority of the players in the film are two dimensional. I feel that for some reason Trigger Warning may be suffering for its delayed release. Perhaps if it had been distributed in 2021 some love could have been sent its way.

Seriously, is this any worse than most of the wooden action thrillers starring Arnold Schwarzenegger or, heaven help us, Chuck Norris. (No offence meant Chuck, your action movements were always spot on compared to your dialogue scenes.)

Finally

Alba delivers her lines with feeling and sincerity. She delivers what we expect from an actor of her calibre. I feel that 3.5 stars for Trigger Warning is fair. Head on over to Netflix and see what you think. Am I being too generous?