Trigger Warning reminds of the halcyon days of better Netflix action flicks like The Grey Man and Red Notice. Call it The Beige Project… just a blah bag of beige boredom bothering my beleaguered eyes. Jessica Alba came out of semi-retirement for this <face palm>.

Alba plays a special ops soldier who rotates home when her dad dies mysteriously. She takes over his bar, investigate his death, and fights crime, I guess. Specifically someone is out here selling rocket launchers… as you do.

While I’ve missed Alba, I’m sad to say this is hardly a step-up in production, action, or her career. It’s one of those films that just begged to have a point. That made me wonder if this is really the alpha and omega of some screenwriter’s career. They got a film made… great… but couldn’t they have had a little more ambition? And Jessica Alba too for signing up for this.

It’s not all the writer’s fault… gotta say the director doesn’t have his eye on the ball either. The movie is boring and slow with bad comic timing. It makes some attempts at hand-to-hand fights that aren’t too bad and some gunfights that don’t even meet that standard.

I was amused that Alba played a woman who woke up in the morning and choose knife violence. Watching her stab people as her first response to an action scene had a certain amusement value. I guess it’s her calling card: stabbin’ dudes.

For being a vegetarian nothing burger, hold the bun, I award this flick one whole star. Honestly, maybe it deserves slightly better but when I think of my higher scores for bad movies, I can at least pinpoint some level of ambition, some level of competency, some level of comedy, some level of good ideas, and even, honestly, some level of acting. This flick gave me nothing other than being able to say hi to an actress I’ve missed (and her knives).

Score: 58