Jessica Alba may be most popular for her role in The Fantastic Four franchise, as Sue Storm, or The Invisible Woman. As a young actress, she was already in the limelight at the age of 13, when she was featured in Camp Nowhere and The Secret World of Alex Mack. Throughout her career, Jessica Alba has bagged several accolades, including the Teen Choice Award and Saturn Award. But, she is mostly remembered for her role in the television series, Dark Angel, by James Cameron. Let’s look at some of the best movies from Jessica Alba.
7 Good Luck Chuck (2007)
Dane Cook, a standup comedian, stars as Charlie Logan in a romantic comedy titled Good Luck Chuck. In the movie, Charlie Logan is afflicted with a curse where his ex-girlfriends find true love immediately after they move on from him. Once women learn about his good-luck charm, Logan becomes the elixir of life for women from all over the country. But, when Logan meets the apple of his eye, he tries out different ways to break the curse or risk losing the woman of his dreams, penguin zookeeper Cam (Jessica Alba).
This movie was Jessica Alba's first romantic comedy. Even though she admits that she was an inexpensive act, she enjoyed herself from day one. There is a scene where she slips while attending to penguins and chips her tooth. She indeed chipped her tooth while shooting the film, but it was not in that scene. It was in a love scene with Logan, which became wildly physical, as they rehearsed the scene.
6 Honey (2003)
Honey is a 2003 American dance film starring Jessica Alba (Honey Daniels), a struggling triple-threat hip-hop dancer. The movie’s main theme is about finding the courage to follow your dreams. Get into the groove with Ms. Daniels, a passionate and relentless dancer who takes the risky move of making it on her own terms. The story comes to life with exhilarating music and dance moves, with screen appearances from hip-hop stars Lil Romeo and Missy Elliot.
Originally, Jessica Alba’s role was meant for Beyonce, but after Beyonce's management team realized that the filming of the movie would clash with the tour dates of her first album, Dangerously in Love, she dropped the role. Shortly after, Alba was selected because she had a memorable performance during her auditions.
5 Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)
The second film in The Fantastic Four movies, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, is about a team of four young stars with superhuman abilities to fight Earth's greatest threats. The second film in the comic series from Marvel Comics is about the villain Galactus, an intergalactic planet-devouring force that is coming after Earth.
The force sends a powerful Silver Surfer to end the world. If that is not enough for The Fantastic Four heroes, Victor Von Doom, an old villain, makes a return. The four defenders of Earth use their superpowers to fight the Surfer, who seems to have a liking for Susan Storm (Jessica Alba). But, Dr. Doom has other plans.
4 Mechanic 2: Resurrection (2016)
Mechanic 2: Resurrection features Arthur Bishop (Jason Statham), a hitman forced out of retirement to undertake three difficult assassinations to save his kidnapped girlfriend, Gina (Jessica Alba). The tough part about his missions to kill, is that Statham has to cover up the murders to look like accidents.
During the filming of the movie, Jessica Alba felt like her character of Gina Thorne was only two-dimensional. So, together with the film director, they worked on her role until they felt like it matched Statham’s hardcore role.
3 Fantastic Four (2005)
Fantastic Four was one of the earliest movies with superhero characters that were loved by comic book fans. The four leading characters in the movie are granted powers after they fly through a radiation cloud full of cosmic energy. Despite the bickering of the characters throughout the movie, they still find a way to work things out. They are a great representation of family dynamics. Alba, in an interview with ScreenSlam, reiterated the point by saying, “Fantastic Four is a family, and I think any good family is a bit dysfunctional.”
2 Sin City (2005)
Sin City is a black-and-white crime thriller that is an adaptation of Frank Miller’s graphic novel. The story features four parallel stories that speak about the evil engulfing the city; a story of love where a vigilante is fighting his way to save his lost love; a tragic story about co-dependency; a motivated cop saving a kid from a psychopath, and lastly, an ex-call girl evading her past by running away from her manipulative pimp, with the aid of her lover.
In Sin City, Jessica Alba’s character, Nancy Callahan plays an exotic dancer, a role she said is completely different from what she is like in real life. Although Jessica Alba's off-screen lifestyle is conservative, she likes playing roles that push the envelope. In a 2014 ABC interview, she said,” It was fun; that’s because it was the opposite of who I am.”
1 Into the Blue (2005)
The story of Into the Blue is about the adventures of young deep-sea divers Sam (Jessica Alba) and Jared (Paul Walker), who by sheer luck discover a crashed airplane full of cocaine at the bottom of the sea during a treasure-hunting expedition. Adversity strikes when the crime mafia follows them to reclaim their lost drugs.
Before making the movie, Alba liked the script because it had a thriller aspect to it. The mixture of action and thriller was the main attraction for her, paired with her experience as a diver. Lastly, Alba stands out as the moral center of the movie, while the other acts are busy building castles in the air with the money they will get from the drugs and the Zephyr treasure. In the end, some people die; others live to uncover the lost treasure. Watch the movie to see who dies and who strikes gold.