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‘Trigger Warning’ Review: Supersoldier Jessica Alba Wages War on Domestic Criminals in Slick but Contrived Melodrama
Jessica Alba’s wrath gets triggered in Indonesian director Mouly Surya’s 'Trigger Warning,' a decent action thriller with a formulaic script.
After two intriguingly conceived but somewhat vague initial features, Surya made an assertive impression with 2018’s “Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts.” That striking “feminist outlaw Western” distinctively juggled elements of revenge thriller, black comedy and character-driven social critique. A possibility of foul play grows stronger once she realizes Elvis and his goons are selling stolen military weapons — perhaps hiding them in the abandoned mineshafts that were dad’s “favorite place,” and where he died in a questionable cave-in. As our heroine’s sleuthing exposes more and more dirt, her few reliable allies include amiable local stoner Mikey (Gabriel Basso) and quick-witted Special Forces colleague Spider (Tone Bell).
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