Directed by Alejandro Gómez Monteverde, starring Jim Caviezel and Mira Sorvino, and heartily endorsed by a visibly drunk Mel Gibson, Sound of Freedom loosely adapts the life and work of Tim Ballard, founder of a controversial anti-sex-trafficking organisatin.
The film arrives in New Zealand when it opens in cinemas on August 24.
In a heavily fictionalised version of events, former Jesus Caviezel plays Ballard, a Homeland Security agent who takes matters into his own hands in order to rescue kidnapped children from a Colombian sex-trafficking ring.
Sorvino, who once won an Oscar, is his deathlessly supportive wife, Katherine, while character actor Bill Camp is Vampiro, a cartel accountant turned anti-trafficking operative.
Operation Underground Railroad itself maintains the film “exaggerated or fabricated elements included for dramatic purposes” and reputable anti-trafficking crusaders say it’s deceptive storytelling is making their jobs harder. It’s in cinemas soon…use that info as you see fit.
