Trigger Warning (2024) is another in the long list of films that proves women can be as heroic and tough and ruthless and bloodthirsty as any man.
The father of special forces operative Parker (Jessica Alba) dies when a cave on their property collapses. But when the local police rule his death a suicide, she doesn’t believe her daddy would kill himself, and starts to investigate.
One thing leads to another and, with some off-site computer shenanigans by her colleague, the tech operator Spider (Tone Bell), she discovers a local family, headed by a former senator, are selling munitions from the local army base to a domestic terrorist.
That’s the trigger for Parker to unleash her very special set of skill and do what she must, to thwart the domestic terrorists and more importantly avenge her father. The violence escalates as Alba gets stuck in with her weapon of choice, a knife given to her by daddy, cutting and stabbing with precision and ruthless efficiency. And she doesn’t stop until all the bad guys are dead, and she can go back to her day job with a gun.
It’s not a bad film, technically speaking, but it feels like the television movie version of something like Haywire (2011) or Colombiana (2011), Steven Soderbergh and Olivier Megaton respectively. Also, Colombiana was written by Luc Besson, who set the bar for ruthlessly efficient women with a special set of skills in his film Nikita (1990).
Darrin // Nightingale 