So, my wife and I brought the kids on July 5th to see Sound of Freedom, the new movie from Angel Studio starring Jim Caviezel. It was excellent. The entire thing felt very real and harrowing.
Reportedly, it made a good bit of money. Reports first came out that the movie surprised everyone by even rivaling the new Indiana Jones movie for supremacy on the 4th of July with both movies taking in about $11.5 million.
But the truth is that the drama starring Jim Caviezel grossed around $14 million on its first day of release while Disney’s “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” made less, and also had the luxury of playing in 2,000 more theaters. “Sound of Freedom” had a budget of $15 million while ‘Indiana Jones 5’ cost around $329 million to make.
This movie was the movie Disney never wanted you to see. Fox produced the movie originally but when Disney gobbled up Fox they killed that movie, even though it was already made. Angel Studios saved it.
Hmmmm…I wonder why Disney execs wouldn’t want a movie about child trafficking riling up the plebes?
Yet still, Metacritic doesn’t have it listed on its website and it only has 13 reviews listed on Rotten Tomatoes. They’re going to do whatever they can to ignore this movie into irrelevance. Don’t let it happen. See the movie. You will be horrified but it’s not salacious at all. This is what’s going on in the world.
The line that hits hard during the movie is when Caviezel’s character Tim Ballard says “God’s children are not for sale.”
The truth is that once life is not deemed as sacred or priceless, you’re just haggling over the cost.
