A former Special Forces commando runs into trouble when she returns to her hometown in Mouly Surya’s female-driven star vehicle.

Jessica Alba’s new starring vehicle boasts plenty of action movie credentials. The star, making her first feature film appearance in five years after guiding her business venture The Honest Company to a billion dollar-plus valuation, has previously displayed her skills in such film and television projects as Dark Angel and the Fantastic Four and Sin City franchises. Production company Thunder Road boasts the John Wick and Sicario movies among its credits. And its trio of screenwriters are responsible for such efforts as Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, A History of Violence and HBO’s Westworld.

The badass bona fides of Alba’s character Parker, a Special Forces commando, are immediately established in the opening scene in which she’s seen effortlessly dispatching several terrorist types in the desert. She’s also shown to be honorable, demonstrated by her angry reaction when one of her fellow soldiers takes it upon himself to start executing the prisoners and she violently puts him in his place.

If this weren’t an action film, Parker would be allowed to grieve for her father, accept her friends’ condolences and presumably return to active duty. No such luck. She comes to suspect that the death was no accident, suicide or, as her former boyfriend turned sheriff Jesse (Mark Webber, Green Room) suggests, a result of encroaching dementia.

Her suspicions turn out to be correct, as she uncovers a criminal scheme to use the mine to steal weapons from a nearby military depot. Prominently figuring in the scheme is Jesse’s father (former teen star Anthony Michael Hall, who’s aged into his villainous looks), a corrupt senator — of a conservative bent, natch — and Jesse’s volatile brother Elvis (Jake Weary).

For support, Parker enlists the help of her covert ops colleague Spider (stand-up comedian/actor Tone Bell), an expert computer hacker, and Mike (Gabriel Basso), a local drug dealer who’s like a younger brother to her.

Mostly, it’s an excuse for Alba to display her impressive physical fitness in a series of intense fight scenes, expertly choreographed in the sort of manner that allows you to see bodies in motion rather than mere flying limbs in frenzied jump cuts.

Director Surya reveals an assured command of the form, delivering enough bone-crushing and knife-wielding sequences to satisfy undemanding, action-craving viewers looking for mindless distraction on a weekend night. Needless to say, by the time Parker asks one of her female friends, “You wouldn’t by any chance have a bunch of guns lying around somewhere, would you?” all hell breaks loose.

Unfortunately, Alba, although more than competent, doesn’t quite have the full-bore charisma to make her character particularly interesting, or, as Netflix presumably hopes, the catalyst for a new action franchise. By the time the generically titled Trigger Warning reaches its predictable conclusion, you’ll be hankering to see what the streamer’s all-knowing algorithms have in store for you next.