10 Actors Who Were Totally Miscast In Recent Movies

Jessica Alba is certainly no stranger to action, given her past on cult fave TV show Dark Angel, but her work in recent Netflix actioner Trigger Warning leaves much to be desired.

Alba plays Special Forces officer Parker, who returns to her hometown and wages war on a violent gang terrorising the locals. As a meat-and-potatoes genre schlock setup it has potential, to see Alba kicking ass as a crappy commando - why the hell not?

But Alba's stilted, even downright boring performance robs the film of much sense of fun. 

There's little visceral intensity to the action beats, which should've emphasised her scrappy intelligence in fending off men much larger than herself, and when it comes to the dialogue, Alba often sounds totally bored.

Perhaps she was going for coolly stoic, but this is a movie that desperately needed a ferocious lead actress to elevate the uninspired material, and Alba just isn't it.