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Trigger Warning Netflix Review: Trigger Warning is the most recent in a never-ending series of action-thriller Netflix movies that seem to come out of nowhere and replace the ones that come before it. Almost every scene in the movie serves as a reminder of better movies. These allusions are sometimes intentional, but more often than not, they betray a lack of direction clarity. Trigger Warning finds it difficult to establish a unique personality because of how much it owes to other films. It’s terribly stodgy, barely functional, and neither serious nor silly.

If you’re ready to get jolted along for an exciting trip, Trigger Warning Netflix Review is the kind of movie where you should go in with no expectations and come out pleasantly delighted. From the beginning to the end, the action is pleasantly relentless. We start at the required anonymous desert, where there will be flying bullets and a chase. Jessica Alba’s character, Special Forces commando Parker, dispatches the unidentified villains with efficiency.

Parker, a kind of covert operative played by Jessica Alba, goes back to her small desert town after her father is ostensibly killed in a mining accident. Parker takes over his bar, where she unwinds for a while as she looks into the strange events that led to his death. Through the help of his two sons, the layabout Elvis and his brother, the sheriff Jesse, she finds that the local senator, an elderly racist named Swann, is involved in some sort of illicit weapons trade.

Parker is in for a shock when she learns of the unexpected death of her father, Harry (Alejandro De Hoyos). When she actually goes back to her hometown of Creation, she discovers that she has inherited the family bar along with a ton of false information and secrets. In an attempt to make meaning of the death of her father, who perished in a mine explosion, she encounters Jesse, a previous boyfriend who is currently a sheriff (Mark Webber). Parker finds that surprising because Harry had developed a cozy home there—as one character puts it, “he made a man cave in a cave”—and was familiar with the mine.

Trigger Warning

Director: Mouly Surya
Cast: Jessica Alba, Anthony Michael Hall
Storyline: A Special Forces commando returns home to a dead father and a can of worms
Runtime: 106 minutes
Rating : 1.5/5

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Trigger Warning Netflix Review

The Swanns mount a counterattack as soon as they learn that Parker is closing in on them, determined to expose their smuggling scheme and explain her father’s death because he found them first and was killed in revenge. Trigger Warning, which was directed by Mouly Surya, is an entertaining film for about thirty minutes. However, things take a turn for the worst once Parker finds her way about the city and makes contact with former friends.

It has very little action for a movie called an action movie. And there aren’t really many gunfights in a movie named Trigger Warning Netflix Review. Rather, it seems that Parker’s go-to weapon of choice is a knife. She cuts the throats of goons by sneaking up behind them. She can even use random household items nearby as weapons when the situation calls for it. Despite sharing similarities with Jason Bourne in terms of ingenuity and backstory, the action in Trigger Warning is luckily not cropped to an extremely close degree. They are attempting to emulate the style of John Wick, which features elegantly choreographed fight scenes that play out in unedited shots, but they are doing it in a way that gives the impression that they have the stunt crew but not the intelligence of that show.

Things start to happen when Parker asks her hacker and covert ops buddy, Spider (Tone Bell), to watch the new cameras that have been installed at the mine. The sinister activities at Creation may have something to do with Jesse’s father Senator Swann (Anthony Michael Hall) and brother Elvis (Jake Weary). Parker also has the marijuana-maker Mike (Gabriel Basso) to lean on for assistance.

Almost every scene in Trigger Warning reflects the algorithmic style of action storytelling, which is oddly absent from its frames. Compared to the worst films in this category, Red Notice, The Gray Man, and the most recent Atlas, the film is significantly more stylized. The third act showdown is nearly entirely set inside dimly lit tombs, so the images, at least in the first half, have a vibrant quality. The original Rambo movie served as more than just a creative inspiration for Trigger Warning; in fact, the movie’s climax is taken directly from Rambo: Last Blood, the most recent entry in the series. It is, however, far less visceral than it has to be and lacks the raw ingenuity of that movie.

Criticizing the acting in a movie like this seems like nitpicking because the screenplay is never good enough to get a good performance. You can’t help but wonder, though, how much more palatable Trigger Warning Netflix Review may have been had Alba added a little flair to her work—especially because there’s nothing else to divert your attention from it. It’s not her fault; the script and directing have left her absolutely bewildered, but it seems as though she is uninterested in any scenario that calls for her to speak. It appears from her acting in a stressful scene where the baddies have Parker bound and tortured that she might just be willing to die rather than spend another moment with people. Maybe Alba believed that simply showing up for the stunt training was sufficient.

Moreover, Trigger Warning Netflix Review seems very sparsely populated. As if everyone in the community is still engaged in social alienation. Normally, this wouldn’t be a problem—especially since the film itself makes it clear that it takes place in a distant area—but the evil senator in Trigger Warning frequently discusses taking advantage of the local Latino community. These are folks we never see. Parker is a recluse; her closest buddy appears to be a passing acquaintance from work, and she seldom talks to more than five individuals in her small town. All of this serves to further accentuate this endeavor’s artifice. It turns out that the film’s literal dearth of human figures serves as a powerful metaphor for its dull story.

Before everything works out in the end, we hear over the radio about a threat to security, another nearly nameless terrorist, numerous explosions and firefights, and a small amount of torture. Together with Alba, first-time director Mouly Surya brings a degree of intimacy to the action by integrating Indonesian knife fighting.

Alba invests a lot of emotion into her Parker, a cross between John Rambo and Jack Reacher with a hint of John Wick. Parker, like the previously mentioned itinerant tough guys, ends up in a tiny village in the middle of nowhere and uses a combination of cunning and strength to uncover a major plot.

As we all know, a serious warrior has a head shaved to prevent their hair from getting in the way of taking down bad men or xenomorphs, like Furiosa and Ripley. She is wise enough to braid her hair when she chases after evil guys.

The negative criticism directed at Trigger Warning Netflix Review is unwarranted. With a convincing Alba at the center, it’s a well-paced action film. Sure, it could have been better, but it’s also not so horrible that you’d want to stab yourself in the eye.