Critics Blast Jessica Alba's Netflix Movie 'Trigger Warning'

Jessica Alba in "Trigger Warning."

Jessica Alba’s new Netflix movie Trigger Warning is getting blown to pieces by Rotten Tomatoes critics.

New on the streaming service Friday, Trigger Warning stars Alba as Parker, a U.S. Special Forces commando stationed overseas who makes a sudden trip home when her father is murdered.

Taking over her family’s bar, Parker encounters her former boyfriend-turned-sheriff (Mark Webber) and his brother (Jake Weary), who are the sons of a powerful senator (Anthony Michael Hall).

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In addition, Parker learns that a vicious gang has infiltrated her hometown and at the same time, which makes things difficult as she investigates the circumstances behind her father’s death.

Rotten Tomatoes critics are firing all kinds of shots at Trigger Warning as the film debuts on Netflix Friday, giving it a 26% “rotten” rating based on 19 reviews. RT’s Audience Score is worse, as viewers gave the Trigger Warning a 16% “rotten” rating based on 50-plus user ratings.

Among RT’s top critics ripping on Trigger Warning is IndieWire reviewer David Ehrlich, who recalls Sylvester Stallone’s Rambo movies in his critique of the Jessica Alba film.

“Seemingly bored out of her mind in every scene where she isn’t slitting a bad guy’s throat, the likable Dark Angel actress—a capable action star who’s never lacked charisma in the past—appears to have confused Rambo-like stoicism with complete dissociation,” Ehrlich writes.

In his review for the U.K.’s Telegraph, Robbie Collin writes, “Despite its title, Trigger Warning is about as inflammatory as a ham and cheese sandwich. There are installments of the Minions franchise more liable to épater the bourgeoisie than this thinly spread thriller from the production company behind the John Wick films.”

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Meanwhile, Dennis Harvey of Variety gives a “fresh” rating to Trigger Warning, noting that it “is slick and eventful enough to maintain viewer engagement.”

Still, Harvey points out the film’s plot contrivances and adds that director Mouly Surya “doesn’t exhibit any great flair for building suspense or staging violent set-pieces.”

Trigger Warning marks Alba’s first new movie in five years. Her last film appearance came in the 2019 action crime mystery Killers Anonymous.

Also starring Tone Bell and Gabriel Bosso, Trigger Warning is streaming exclusively on Netflix.

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