Trigger Warning
Also making for an odd beginning is the pursuit that opens the film: it is not very intense. The action begins in Badiyat al-Sham desert in Syria where, Parker (Jessica Alba) leads a task force who promote gesells on a CGI truck that rides like a Lego vehicle on sand. Her hands brimmed with weapons, a car, rather a wooden bed- a stage prop, moves with aplomb as she shifts its window to shoot. Of course, this is not an extended sequence and rather interestingly, concludes with a garishly shot destruction of a Syrian’s truck. Its aim, apart from being a dull fast forward, is for Parker to slaughter brown people and for Brown to play a heuristic killer she forbids her co-worker to kill MENA prisoners.
Indonesian filmmaker Mouly Surya was provided the trigger warning screenplay by two heads, three writers, John Brancato, Josh Olson and Halley Wegryan Gross and it shows. No sooner than establishing those chase sequences, this unassuming rural revenge thriller starts getting a little blurry. Then Parker gets a phone from Jesse (Mark Webber) the sheriff who tell her that she had lost her father in an accident which has occurred within the mine. She works through his potential suicide note and takes possession of the bar that he left behind. Some of the gaps within the facts are however making things uneasy for Parker.
The girl’s father used to be one of the Green Berets, but apparently the reason mainly evoked for the mining accident is him misplacing a grenade pin. In fact, there are also guns of a different sort vicious and powerful: machine guns, RPGs and grenades, which somehow, some way slowly seep into the region.
Trigger Warning” is made as a sincere brooding and dark film and does not have any idea how silly and gratifying it could have been had it committed to the super hero trope. Or at least the technique to lift it to the thrilling sector that it aims for but has not reached.
My own temperament, on the other hand, can quite easily cope with a thin plot. I don’t even want to hear an illogical script. The insults or war scenes seem to spring up quite often in the movie “Trigger Warning” most especially with the Shaw family. After a bit of digging around, Parker finds a sex tape on her dad’s hidden camera featuring Elvis Shaw (Jake Weary) selling arms to terrorists. There is no feeling good along the tortuous journey back to Elvis’ father, whom senatorial Swan (Anthony Michael Hall) seeking re-election, and Jesse Elvis’ brother. Everything that is presented before them does not add up.
What on earth is Elvis doing with the heavy duty arms at an army base? Why has Senator Swan been working hard on Parker’s endorsement? But most importantly, why should Parker’s fans be able to accept her discontent towards her neighbours? That’s why her lack of any background is sometimes a great gimmick. Well, actually I would like to understand the general reason why somebody is expected to sympathise with a rather dark figure like Parker.
It is apparent that Surya is always against the wall, both with her finances and with her script. The last feature film she directed, “Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts,” a rural Indonesian thriller, was presented in Cannes and represented Indonesia in the Oscar race. It is mainly due to that experience that she makes good use of it here.
Rickety VFX heavy scenes contain most of Surya’s imagination but some handsomely mounted shots are conjured such as beautiful white hills / mountains, dirty roads and wooden houses & interiors all of which are warmly shot. Where the fights are, and there are many big shootouts across this small town, is in the character bits, sitting in old pubs and small houses.
However, the countryside where this picture is set has an unexpected bleakness. There is the Latinx component that somewhat bobs to the surface, one where a predominately Latinx town is govern by a white family. There is also the dead end Conservative politics that rules the land where Jesse found himself torn between his loyalty to his family and to Parker. It is also possible for malignancy to metaphorically run its course. Here, most parameters are switched off.
The lack of oxygen deteriorates the hand to hand fight scenes too.
Some scenes are let down by their continued proximity to the chop line, long overdue-and should have remained long overdue. Others drag on (a Sediuk panel is here) and fail to build up any suspense. The action itself is also sloppy (difference in charisma between Alba’s presence and the shift to her legit stunts involving a maslee or a storm bear.) Alba is not so much an adventurer action hero as a non perfect of a screen character with no specializations without time to develop what could have become outstandingly bright and memorable secondary’s.
That said, it is quite hard to accuse the authors of “Trigger Warning” of going too far with handy capes is sit there and are simply “Good,” the visions have little to. There are definitely considerably worse films- considerably on the action-thriller subgenre. But one ought to tromp that one shouldn’t be the worst why criticize it. This is a problem that Netflix very often tries to straddle while churning out numerous revenge type movies and this does it slightly better than the average. It is better than average; however, it is not quite sufficient to elevate “Trigger Warning” above the bottom of the streamer’s barrel.
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