Trigger Warning
Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): June 21, 2024 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 14 Critic Reviews
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8
Negative:
6
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The GuardianBenjamin LeeJun 21, 2024
Alba hasn’t always made the strongest impression as an actor but this mode works well for her, convincing both in her many hand-to-hand combat scenes (her weapon of choice is a knife rather than a gun) and as an old-fashioned movie star, light on emotional depth but heavy on charisma. Read full review
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CNNBrian LowryJun 21, 2024
Trigger Warning might not be packing anything unexpected in the chamber, but for those who come to it with the proper mind-set, the movie doesn’t wind up firing blanks either. Read full review
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VarietyDennis HarveyJun 21, 2024
Indonesian director Mouly Surya’s well-crafted first English-language feature is too formulaically contrived to qualify as “elevated genre” or to boast the personal stamp of her prior work. Still, it’s an entertaining, pacey action melodrama. Read full review
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The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckJun 21, 2024
Unfortunately, despite everyone’s best efforts to deliver a femme-driven actioner revolving around a central character who comes across like a female Rambo, Trigger Warning, premiering on Netflix, proves distressingly familiar. Read full review
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The A.V. ClubCourtney HowardJun 21, 2024
The filmmakers frustratingly fail to dig into the familiar territory they’re traversing. What should serve as a warm welcome for Mouly Surya (helming her first English-language picture) and a kick-ass welcome back to lead roles for star Jessica Alba turns into a congealed mess of squandered potential. Read full review
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Screen RantFerdosa AbdiJun 24, 2024
Much like The Mother, Trigger Warner is all setup with little payoff. The emotional sentiments are effective but drawn out in uninteresting ways, and Alba, a capable actress, is not nearly as charismatic as the middling script requires her to be. Read full review
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EmpireJohn NugentJun 21, 2024
An unremarkable and quickly forgettable B-movie. Jessica Alba makes a decent stab for John Wick’s particular brand of movie vengeance, but she needs better material than this. Read full review
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The TelegraphRobbie CollinJun 20, 2024
This is pure filmmaking-by-paycheque: you can virtually hear the clock card machine crunching at the start of every scene, as cast and crew punch in dutifully for another shift. Read full review
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RogerEbert.comRobert DanielsJun 21, 2024
Trigger Warning is a self-serious, brooding film without the wherewithal to know how righteously dumb it could be if it committed to the bit. Or, at least, the expertise to elevate it to the suspenseful level it so desperately aims to reach. Read full review
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IndieWireDavid EhrlichJun 21, 2024
Trigger Warning only exists to serve the needs of a streaming algorithm, which is just as well, as that streaming algorithm is the only audience this undercooked and utterly lifeless piece of streaming content could ever hope to satisfy. Read full review
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TheWrapElizabeth WeitzmanJan 30, 2025
Some B-movies, of course, are highly entertaining. This one, though, seems like it was as much of a slog to make as it is to watch. Read full review
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Paste MagazineJacob OllerJun 24, 2024
The veteran-comes-home revenger Trigger Warning is thoroughly idiotic and deathly slow, filled with so much ugly camp that it could stand in as the first Lifetime Original action movie. Read full review
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Movie NationRoger MooreJun 24, 2024
The story’s “twists” don’t merit the use of the word, and the action beats are generic in the extreme — big explosions here and there, shoot-outs, sniping and fist-fighting and pissed-off beat-downs. Read full review
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ColliderRobert Brian TaylorJun 21, 2024
In Trigger Warning, there's nowhere for Alba to go — no notable battles to fight, nor an interesting war to win. And what we're left with is just another disposable action movie, dropped indiscriminately on a streaming service to sit among all the others. Read full review
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