Director Mouly Surya’s gritty, glossy English-language foray is frustrating, focusing on a daughter’s hometown return and vengeful quest
Trigger Warning has all the makings of a shrewd contemporary Western, as well as housing career-defining opportunities for two women spotlighting their formidable talents. It’s a story that features great set-ups for deep dramatics: a woman seeking vengeance for the death of her beloved father, brothers on opposing sides of the law, and a corrupt politician puppeteering a criminal operation. Yet the filmmakers frustratingly fail to dig into the familiar territory they’re traversing.
Whether it’s Jesse figuring out Parker’s cellphone password, or Parker failing to attempt to open her father’s password-protected footage, or Parker being able to spot clues to unsolved crimes yet failing to notice a bullet wound in her dad’s body—it’s all maddening. They cleverly subvert the third act damsel-in-distress trope, using computer hacker Spider as bait, but then shamelessly pat themselves on the back by pointing this out in the dialogue. So, no points awarded there either.
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