One of Netflix’s top new releases this week features Jessica Alba making her return to the action genre in Trigger Warning. Alba has previously seen success as an action star in Dark Angel and Sin City, and her comeback with Netflix will likely see her trying to emulate Jennifer Lopez’s emergence as a major action star for the streaming giant.
In Trigger Warning, Alba plays a special forces commando determined to uncover the truth behind her father’s mysterious death, which is tied to a violent gang. As she returns home, she discovers unsettling connections between a corrupt senator and a group of complicit police officers, potentially linked to her father’s demise.
Trigger Warning appears to have far more potential than Jessica Alba’s last action film, the disastrous Killers Anonymous.
The Netflix synopsis reads, Special Forces commando Parker (Alba) is on active duty overseas when she gets called back to her hometown with the tragic news that her father has suddenly died. Now the owner of the family bar, Parker reconnects with her former boyfriend turned sheriff Jesse (Mark Webber), his hot-tempered brother Elvis (Jake Weary), and their powerful father Senator Swann (Anthony Michael Hall) as she looks to understand what actually happened to her dad.
The latest trailer sees Alba demonstrating impressive combat skills as she skillfully dismantles her attacker, expertly displaying her knife techniques. While speaking to Netflix’s Tudum, Alba discusses her return to action roles, stating:
I haven’t really done hand-to-hand combat and intense action in such a long time, for me, I really wanted it to be a more intimate kind of fighting experience if I needed to take somebody out.
Jessica Alba | Via | Tadum
Directed by Mouly Surya, she explains her connection to the film, stating, “I think one of the things that attracted me is there’s loss in this film,” Surya says. “And I really connected with that grief of losing… my father a few years before.”
Trigger Warning lands on Netflix this Friday June 21.
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