Riposte

How easy is it to actually sell a script to Netflix?

Take a look at Trigger Warning and you'll know. The script is incredibly bad and full of bad cliches. The director is absolutely out of her depth with everything, but worst of all with the action scenes. Even Jessica Alba can't save this lousy movie, but that seems to be her fault. According to the motto: Take the money and run. Too bad, because Alba is a really great actress. Just not in Trigger Warning. If you want to get upset about a badly made movie, then watch Trigger Warning.

And to the people at Netflix, just fire the entire script department, if you have one at all.

This movie receives a maximum of two stars from me. Some scenes in the movie have no continuity. This movie has terrible direction. Jessica Alba's acting prowess has been demonstrated in her prior films. However, in this one, there is acting confusion in every scene. Actually, hardly a single scene has any life in it. Discovering the cause of the heroine's father's death is the main goal of the film. It's a completely bad film. From the outset, it presents a quiet atmosphere in a desolate setting with few actors. It's like an inexperienced director took a nonsense script and cast it. Even with a bad screenplay, these kinds of thrillers ought to have better acting. Jessica doesn't even know how to hold a knife correctly in this film. A group of dramatists who were unaware of the circumstances made up the co-actors. Come on, Netflix is the greatest place to see if a movie is good or horrible right now.

First, J Lo. Now, Jessica Alba, too.

I love J Lo and I love Jessica Alba. But, wow, they have signed on to really bad movies for Netflix.

I think Alba's at her best in romantic comedies. Action films, not so much. But I think it's not entirely her fault - the projects she's signed onto in the past few years have had poor writing, production value, and directing.

Alba's not that old, so she can still do romantic comedies. I really wish she would go back to that. Ok, I understand if she wants to expand her range. But then she really needs better projects to sink her teeth and talent into.

As for "Trigger Warning", it's entirely forgettable and I could hardly make it through the entire runtime. I'm all for strong female characters when the writing is good - think "Blue Eye Samurai". Sadly, we didn't get one here.

I tried, I really did. I like Jessica Alba and generally enjoy these special forces revenge dramas, even if I have to overlook some shortcomings and suspend disbelief.

But this was so, so, so bad. Netflix, just when I don't think you can defecate on your audience any more nastily, you do it again, taking it to new lows.

Right off the bat it's terrible dialogue...and there weren't even many words needed in the first scene. Then come the hilariously bad stunts (every reaction happens a full second before the action that caused it, for example). Then the usual cliches and more bad dialog. A chainsaw that mysteriously starts itself without gasoline or battery to be used as a weapon. Ok, I'm out. I pushed through for 26 minutes and that was 25.5 too many.

This is not good! It's actually pretty boring; I stopped watching right after she escaped from jail. I always laugh when there's a scene of a so called tough female as petite as Jessica and she's being punched in the face by a man that looks like he's almost 200 lbs. Then after a few hard blows, we see a couple of minor bruises on her face and she's still conscious and able to utter a few words. He even gave her a few solid body shots and she handled them like a boss. But it's just a movie right. The script is bad; the story is all over the place. Jessica looks as lovely as ever, but she shouldn't have been cast for this role; she doesn't fit the part.