Dream Wired
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Celebrity
  • DramaAlert
  • Gossip
  • Movie
  • TV
  • Music
  • Comics
  • Shop
  • Home
  • Celebrity
  • DramaAlert
  • Gossip
  • Movie
  • TV
  • Music
  • Comics
  • Shop
No Result
View All Result
Dream Wired
No Result
View All Result
Home Movie

Jessica Alba in Netflix Action Thriller

rmtsa by rmtsa
June 21, 2024
in Movie
0
Jessica Alba in Netflix Action Thriller
74
SHARES
1.2k
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter


You might also like

Netflix Just Released the Best Animated Movie of the Year

Linda Hamilton Gets Honest About Terminator, Stranger Things, & More

Brad Pitt on Making Sports Movies ‘F1,’ ‘Moneyball,’ Advice for Actors

Jessica Alba’s new starring vehicle boasts plenty of action movie credentials. The star, making her first feature film appearance in five years after guiding her business venture The Honest Company to a billion dollar-plus valuation, has previously displayed her skills in such film and television projects as Dark Angel and the Fantastic Four and Sin City franchises. Production company Thunder Road boasts the John Wick and Sicario movies among its credits. And its trio of screenwriters are responsible for such efforts as Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, A History of Violence and HBO’s Westworld.

More impressively, the film features many women among its creative team, including Indonesian director Mouly Surya (Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts), making her English-language debut, and director of photography Zoe White (The Handmaid’s Tale). Unfortunately, despite everyone’s best efforts to deliver a femme-driven actioner revolving around a central character who comes across like a female Rambo, Trigger Warning, premiering on Netflix, proves distressingly familiar.

Trigger Warning

The Bottom Line

Familiar action movie tropes, with a femme twist.

Release date: Friday, June 21Cast: Jessica Alba, Mark Webber, Tone Bell, Jake Weary, Gabriel Basso, Anthony Michael Hall, Kaiwi Lyman, Hari DhillonDirector: Mouly SuryaScreenwriters: John Brancato, Josh Olson, Halley Gross
1 hour 46 minutes

The badass bona fides of Alba’s character Parker, a Special Forces commando, are immediately established in the opening scene in which she’s seen effortlessly dispatching several terrorist types in the desert. She’s also shown to be honorable, demonstrated by her angry reaction when one of her fellow soldiers takes it upon himself to start executing the prisoners and she violently puts him in his place.

Not long after, she’s informed that her father has been killed in a mine cave-in, prompting her return to her desert hometown with the symbolically less-than-subtle name of Creation. Not surprisingly, trouble follows her there, as she’s barely back in town a day when she single-handedly foils a robbery by subduing three bad guys, one of whom is brandishing an automatic weapon. She’s clearly an expert fighter not only with guns, but also in hand-to-hand combat, with knives, and, as later prominently showcased, machetes.

If this weren’t an action film, Parker would be allowed to grieve for her father, accept her friends’ condolences and presumably return to active duty. No such luck. She comes to suspect that the death was no accident, suicide, or, as her former boyfriend-turned sheriff Jesse (Mark Webber, Green Room) suggests, a result of encroaching dementia.

Her suspicions turn out to be correct, as she uncovers a criminal scheme to use the mine to steal weapons from a nearby military depot. Prominently figuring in the scheme is Jesse’s father (former teen star Anthony Michael Hall, who’s aged into his villainous looks), a corrupt senator — of a conservative bent, natch — and Jesse’s volatile brother Elvis (Jake Weary).

For support, Parker enlists the help of her covert ops colleague Spider (stand-up comedian/actor Tone Bell), an expert computer hacker, and Mike (Gabriel Basso), a local drug dealer who’s like a younger brother to her.

The by-the-numbers storyline unfolds exactly as you’d expect, despite the trio of screenwriters’ attempts to lend some quirkiness to the proceedings with such moments as the senator telling Parker that his great-grandfather was Native American. “It’s where I get my lactose intolerance from,” he snidely points out.

Mostly, it’s an excuse for Alba to display her impressive physical fitness in a series of intense fight scenes, expertly choreographed in the sort of manner that allows you to see bodies in motion rather than mere flying limbs in frenzied jump cuts.

Director Surya reveals an assured command of the form, delivering enough satisfying bone-crushing and knife-wielding sequences to satisfy undemanding, action-craving viewers looking for mindless distraction on a weekend night. Needless to say, by the time Parker asks one of her female friends, “You wouldn’t by any chance have a bunch of guns lying around somewhere, would you?” all hell breaks loose.

Unfortunately, Alba, although more than competent, doesn’t quite have the full-bore charisma to make her character particularly interesting, or, as Netflix presumably hopes, the catalyst for a new action franchise. By the time the generically titled Trigger Warning reaches its predictable conclusion, you’ll be hankering to see what the streamer’s all-knowing algorithms have in store for you next.  



Source link

Tags: ActionAlbaJessicaNetflixThriller
Share30Tweet19
rmtsa

rmtsa

Recommended For You

Netflix Just Released the Best Animated Movie of the Year

by rmtsa
July 4, 2025
0
Netflix Just Released the Best Animated Movie of the Year

It's been a slow start for feature-length animation this year. Aside from a handful of indie gems, such as the traditionally animated Looney Tunes movie The Day the...

Read more

Linda Hamilton Gets Honest About Terminator, Stranger Things, & More

by rmtsa
July 4, 2025
0
Linda Hamilton Gets Honest About Terminator, Stranger Things, & More

ComingSoon caught up with legendary actress and Resident Alien star Linda Hamilton about the fourth season of her beloved TV show, her thoughts on Terminator: Dark Fate, joining...

Read more

Brad Pitt on Making Sports Movies ‘F1,’ ‘Moneyball,’ Advice for Actors

by rmtsa
July 3, 2025
0
Brad Pitt on Making Sports Movies ‘F1,’ ‘Moneyball,’ Advice for Actors

F1: The Movie may have just released, but it seems like it won’t be the last time Brad Pitt stars in a sports movie. Pitt was a guest...

Read more

We assembled the New York Times’s 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century List. Ask us anything!

by rmtsa
July 3, 2025
0
We assembled the New York Times’s 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century List. Ask us anything!

Hi everybody — We worked on NYT’s 100 best movies of the 21st century list, and asked over 500 stars and filmmakers in Hollywood and around the world...

Read more

The Worst Performances in DC Movies

by rmtsa
July 3, 2025
0
The Worst Performances in DC Movies

Some of the most memorable performances in recent film history have come in movies based on DC Comics properties. Jack Nicholson and Michael Keaton dancing with the devil in the...

Read more
Next Post
Kevin Costner Confirms He’s Not Returning to Yellowstone

Kevin Costner Confirms He’s Not Returning to Yellowstone

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Browse by Category

  • Celebrity
  • Comics
  • DramaAlert
  • Gossip
  • Movie
  • Music
  • TV
  • Uncategorized

CATEGORIES

  • Celebrity
  • Comics
  • DramaAlert
  • Gossip
  • Movie
  • Music
  • TV
  • Uncategorized
No Result
View All Result

Recent News

  • Ringo Starr on Sam Mendes Beatles Biopic: ‘We Would Never Do That’
  • Jurassic World Rebirth Merch to Bring Home Now
  • Hottest Thirst Traps Of The Week, Vol. 102

Copyright © 2023 DramaWired.
DramaWired is a content aggregator and not responsible for the content of external sites.

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Celebrity
  • DramaAlert
  • Gossip
  • Movie
  • TV
  • Music
  • Comics
  • Shop

Copyright © 2023 DramaWired.
DramaWired is a content aggregator and not responsible for the content of external sites.

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In