“Sound of Freedom”

7.2

I could feel it trying to be “Taken” or “Sicario.”

It’s a solid action flick with the added impact of being based on a true story that Hollywood took some license with. Lucky for this particular story, I will watch anything that Jim Caviezel is in. The action and characters are really well done, and everything under the hood is firing on all cylinders.

Addressing the “controversy”: I rarely, if ever watch the news. Especially cable news. I had no idea the hair on fire this one was causing when I saw it. Aside from a sprinkling in of “saving God’s children” in the third act and the marketing campaign being based on an “us versus the world” narrative… they really made a mountain out of a molehill here. The irony of the guy blogging about movies on the internet having to tell people – stop taking movies so seriously. And no shit a movie’s going to have a rough time getting a theatrical release without a distributor. It’s the downside of the studio system, and one of the beauties of the internet and the proliferation of smaller studios, distributors, and theater chains/individual theaters.