Trigger Warning

Trigger Warning Movie Introduction

In the 2024 American action movie “Trigger Warning,” Jessica Alba plays a talented Special Forces officer who takes over her father’s pub following his untimely death. She soon finds herself in conflict with a vicious gang that is causing havoc in her hometown. Josh Olson, Halley Gross, and John Brancato wrote the screenplay for the movie, which is directed by Mouly Surya in English for the first time. The film, which is produced by Lady Spitfire and Thunder Road Films, also features Mark Webber, Tone Bell, Jake Weary, Gabriel Basso, and Anthony Michael Hall in supporting roles.

“Trigger Warning” was first acquired as a spec script by Thunder Road Films in June 2016, then Netflix acquired the film in May 2020. September 2021 saw the finalisation of the cast, and New Mexico served as the filming location. When Netflix released the movie on June 21, 2024, critics gave it a bad review.

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Trigger Warning Movie Storyline

Parker, a highly competent military fighter and investigator for the CIA, and her companion Spider are on a mission in Syria when Parker receives a call from her ex-lover and hometown sheriff, Jesse Swann, telling her that her father, Harry Calvo, has passed away in a mining accident.

Parker meets her friend and the bar’s manager, Mike, when she returns to Creation, New Mexico, for her father’s funeral and to finalise arrangements with his establishment, Maria’s. She concludes after looking into the mine that Harry’s death was not an accident. She confronts Jesse’s younger brother Elvis at a pub and then stops robbers from robbing a hardware store owner.

Parker sees Elvis and his goons looking about her family’s land and discharging firearms. Spider’s research shows that Elvis is a terrorist-supplying dark web guns merchant. Parker meets Jesse’s father, Senator Ezekiel Swann, who is a reelection candidate, as they get back in touch.

Spider tells Parker that Elvis’ men are invading Harry’s territory after Harry’s funeral. When she confronts them, a henchman is killed, her bar is set on fire, and she is taken into custody.

When Jesse confronts Elvis, he reveals that Elvis had stolen guns from a nearby military depot using Harry’s mine and was surreptitiously selling them to arms dealers to finance Jesse’s aspirations to become sheriff and Ezekiel’s campaign. Jesse killed Harry when he realised this, and the Swanns faked it as a mine collapse. Ezekiel has Jesse assassinate Parker’s attorney and gives the go-ahead to resume the armaments trade.

In an attempt to obtain the security tape from the bar, Jesse restrains and beats Parker while he is being held captive. Parker crashes on Mike’s land after fleeing in a police car. In his covert marijuana lab, Mike and his mother conceal her. Parker tries to alert the weapons depot about the thefts after three days, but they ignore her.

Parker is adamant, and with the assistance of Mo and Frank, two family friends, he obtains weapons to fight the Swanns. Ghost, a domestic terrorist who bought stolen weapons from the Swanns and paid for them, is upset that Parker’s meddling prevented them from being delivered. Ezekiel acknowledges using Ghost’s funds for his campaign. After learning the truth about her father’s passing, Parker breaks into the Swann compound, confronts Ezekiel, and ends his life.

When Spider goes to the mine to help Parker, she runs across Ghost’s goons. Parker kills them with a weapons truck explosion to divert their attention so she and Spider can kill Elvis. She gets assistance from Mo, Frank, and Parker’s family pals in finding the military depot exit.

Desperate to take back control, Jesse shows up with a grenade. Parker offers to assist, but he pushes her away and blows himself up after realising there isn’t going to be a happy ending.

Parker continues living her life after the Swann family has left. A month later, Mike video contacts her to give her an update on the progress of repairing and reopening Maria’s, and she and Spider are travelling cross-country to return to their CIA employment.

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Technical Space

• Runtime1 hour 46 minutes
• Color
  • Color
• Sound mix
  • Dolby Digital
• Aspect ratio
  • 2.39:1