Sound of Freedom Reviews
John Serba Decider
And yet, for a film about a man engaging in precarious subterfuge among deep-jungle guerilla traffickers, it’s weirdly boring, its tension and intensity diluted by cornball overtures... and Caviezel’s long, slow, brooding stares.
Full Review | Nov 3, 2023
Luis Martínez El Mundo (Spain)
Monteverde's visual elegance is undermined by a script full of unnecessary clarifications, and underlinings. [Full review in Spanish]
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 16, 2023
Robert Roten Laramie Movie Scope
It is a good, compelling story, but is it true? After a lot of fact-checking, I found out much of the story is not true, and the hero is significantly different in reality than the way he is depicted in the movie. The stink of QAnon pervades this movie.
Full Review | Original Score: B | Oct 16, 2023
Javier Ocaña Cinemanía (Spain)
Alejandro Monteverde directs a film with a solid narrative and elegant staging. [Full review in Spanish]
Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 11, 2023
Tony Asankomah GhMovieFreak
"Sound of Freedom" is a thought-provoking and emotionally charged film that is both socially relevant and artistically impressive.
Full Review | Original Score: 7.5/10 | Oct 8, 2023
Maria Lattila WhyNow (UK)
As it turns out, Sound of Freedom is all bark, but it has no bite. Despite raising awareness on a difficult, but important subject matter, Sound of Freedom becomes a victim of its own lack of ambition.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 28, 2023
Mauricio Jarufe Caballero Cinencuentro
... if we're honest, the movie is particularly mediocre or perhaps even bad, or very bad, depending on your mood (and beliefs). [Full review in Spanish]
Full Review | Sep 25, 2023
Travis Johnson Blunt Magazine
If this flick wasn’t being used as a battleground in the Great Culture War this week, I’d forget I ever saw it within six months.
Full Review | Sep 21, 2023
Alejandro Turdo Hoy Sale Cine
Sound of Freedom's over dramatic approach and conservative vibe when it comes to dealing with such a tough subject matter keep it from being taken as more than a flimsy based on true events search and rescue story.
Full Review | Original Score: 5/10 | Sep 19, 2023
Tom Shone Sunday Times (UK)
A deeply unappealing mixture of the sleazy and the self-righteous, the film isn’t exploitative in the generic shoot-’em-up manner of a Liam Neeson vigilante pic — it’s too pious for action.
Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 8, 2023
Tara Brady Irish Times
It’s refreshingly unaffected. The storytelling is routine. It warrants neither its hard-core disciples nor its worst enemies. Ignore the dishonest huffing and puffing.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 7, 2023
Sebastian Zavala Kahn Me gusta el cine
By being so focused on the Message, they leave out any other aspect that might have served the film. The irony of all this is that if they had made a good movie, their precious Message would have been transmitted better. Full review in Spanish.
Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Sep 6, 2023
Wendy Ide Observer (UK)
A thunderously crass and manipulative movie that is hampered by erratic pacing, pantomime bad guys and an overfondness for shots of Caviezel weeping God-fearing, manly tears.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 3, 2023
Kevin EG Perry Empire Magazine
Jim Caviezel is a one-man scourge of child predators in this well-meaning thriller that doesn’t entirely deserve to be written off as culture-war propaganda.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 1, 2023
Ed Power Daily Telegraph (UK)
It’s bizarre, unsettling and yet – in the filmmaking equivalent of turning wine to water – bracingly dull to boot.
Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 1, 2023
Leonardo D'Esposito La Nación (Argentina)
Ballard is the infallible risen Christ who can never do wrong. [Full review in Spanish]
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 31, 2023
Pablo O. Scholz Clarín
The call-for-action message is definitively more important than the final result. [Full review in Spanish]
Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 31, 2023
Danny Leigh Financial Times
If Sound of Freedom blows your mind, it may be down more to the disorientating lack of a dramatic arc than learning what the MSM apparently don’t want you to know.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 31, 2023
David Griffiths Subculture Entertainment
Simply shut off all the noise about this film and go and see an entertaining film with a powerful message.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 31, 2023
Diego Batlle Otroscines.com
Strictly cinematically speaking, Sound of Freedom is mediocre... [Full review in Spanish]
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 30, 2023