Thursday, 11 July 2024

VOD: Trigger Warning (dir; Mouly Surya, 2024)

"I'm just trying to wrap my head around all of this."

This time it is Jessica Alba's turn to do the Netflix mature-woman-with-special-skills action/revenge routine, as the no-holds-barred soldier returns to her desert hometown on the death of her miner/bar-owner father and takes on a local crimewave, alongside a military weapons sales conspiracy and the local senator re-election campaign.  Alba is a s reliable as ever, but the whole enterprise feels lethargic and very low-key to watch as she tries to piece together what is going on, accompanied by an irritating broodingly-ominous music score that rarely leads anywhere, especially in the very drawn out and barely-lit third act and silly final.  
 

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