Sound of Freedom

 

Alejandro Monteverde's Sound of Freedom is a tightly wound independently produced thriller with an urgent message about child sex trafficking told through a Christian lens.

Jim Caviezel plays real-life Homeland Security agent Tim Ballard, who when we meet him is successfully tracking down and arresting pedophiles engaged in the sell of children for sex.

His latest arrest leads him to the rescue of a Honduran 8-year-old, who asks Ballard to find and rescue his older sister who was kidnapped from their town at the same time. With the help of a freelance rescuer named Vampiro (Bill Camp), Ballard follows leads into Colombia where he stages a major sting that results in the rescue of more than 50 enslaved children and into the jungle where he finds the girl and successfully rescues her from a rebel leader.

Though based on an actual case, journalists have questioned the accuracy of the events presented on-screen and even Ballard's own version of the role he played rescuing scores of children enslaved by sex traffickers in Latin America. Concerns about connections with Q-Anon conspiracy theories may have contributed to the decision to shelve the film until Angel Studios purchased distribution rights and raised enough funds to get the picture into theaters.

Questions about the accuracy of the film notwithstanding, Monteverde has made a passionate, difficult, troubling movie that expresses to powerful affect its central mantra -- God's children are not for sale.