July 20, 2023

Much is being said about the newly released movie Sound of Freedom.  Here’s the trailer, which has now been viewed over 4 million times.

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Sound of Freedom, based on the incredible true story, shines a light on even the darkest of places. After rescuing a young boy from ruthless child traffickers, a federal agent learns the boy’s sister is still captive and decides to embark on a dangerous mission to save her. With time running out, he quits his job and journeys deep into the Colombian jungle, putting his life on the line to free her from a fate worse than death.

Released on July 4, the movie debuted in third place with revenue of about $20 million and in its second week went to second place behind Mission Impossible with $27 million.  The $100 million mark is well within reach.

USA Today says,

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“Sound of Freedom” has a 79% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and a 100% audience score. Audiences gave it an A+ on CinemaScore. In a largely positive review, Variety’s Owen Gleiberman wrote, “Let’s assume that, like me, you’re not a right-wing fundamentalist conspiracy theorist looking for a dark, faith-based suspense film … you needn’t hold extreme beliefs to experience ‘Sound of Freedom’ as a compelling movie that shines an authentic light on one of the crucial criminal horrors of our time, one that Hollywood has mostly shied away from.”

You can always tell when something terrifies the left because the long knives come out — usually for a popular conservative candidate, but in this case, for a movie.

Among the negative reviews, Rolling Stone’s Miles Klee labels the film as a “superhero movie for dads with brainworms,” and The Guardian’s Charles Bramesco accuses it of being “QAnon-adjacent.”  QAnon supposedly claims that the world is being run by pedophiles who use a chemical found in children’s blood as an anti-aging serum.

Bramesco fails to realize that the movie was filmed in 2018, before anyone had ever heard about QAnon.

The real-life Tim Ballard, on whom the film’s main character is based, said that if the film had been released in 2018, it “would be applauded and written up by every news outlet as an important topic.”

He said our wide open southern border is a major source of child sex–trafficking.  “I spent ten out of twelve years on the southern border, and to know what’s happening, you have to understand the economy of pedophilia,” he said.  “The U.S. is the number-one consumer of childhood rape videos in the world.”