Sound of Freedom | Rotten Tomatoes (2024)

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What is the criticism of Sound of Freedom? ›

One of the primary points of contention revolves around the film's portrayal of child trafficking. Experts, including Erin Albright, a former fellow for the Department of Justice's anti-trafficking task force, argue that the depiction is inaccurate and sensationalized.

Review Summary

Sound of Freedom is a profoundly moving picture that will disturb you almost beyond the point of breaking while giving you hope that there are people in the world of such goodness and conviction. With superb performances and direction, audiences will be forever changed by the film's end.

To date, Leave No Trace holds the site's record, with a rating of 100% and 252 positive reviews.

Neeson's wildly popular save-a-kid-from-foreign-sex-traffickers movie Taken was panned by critics, but Sound of Freedom got a positive 72 percent critics' rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a 99 percent positive rating from viewers.

Five women have sued Tim Ballard, founder of an anti-child-trafficking group whose life story inspired the surprise summer hit "Sound of Freedom," alleging he sexually manipulated, abused and harassed them on overseas trips designed to catch child sex traffickers.

Disney told Factchequeado media that, before acquiring Fox – which originally had the rights to the production, – there was an agreement for the distribution of the film only in Latin America, and that later the director of “Sound of Freedom” bought the rights. They did not refer to the fact as a “rejection.”

While Sound of Freedom doesn't take a direct political stance or invoke QAnon, the fervent support for the film from the right has resulted it in being labeled "MAGA-friendly" and embraced by both mainstream conservatives and far-right conspiracy theorists.

Expect scenes that are very hard to watch. Small children are shown being abducted from loving parents, locked up, manipulated, and sexually exploited. Visuals include very young trafficked children sitting or lying on a bed as a man unbuckles his pants, combined with verbal references to children being raped.

Sound of Freedom is rated PG-13, has a little swearing in it, some crude language, and at least one semi-gory image (not involving a child).

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Why is no one promoting the Sound of Freedom? ›

Why is 'Sound of Freedom' sparking controversy? Some experts have challenged the factual accuracy of “Sound of Freedom,” saying it paints an inaccurate, sensationalized picture of child trafficking. The film portrays children being snatched and kidnapped by strangers.

Overall, Sound of Freedom is politically charged - it's trying to shed light on a very real world-wide issue but due to lack of character development, bad acting and long run time it might fail to entertain and engage you as a viewer.

“Sound of Freedom” was based on a true story but contains dramatized elements. Filmmakers took creative license in portraying the different ways that children can be trafficked, including in shipping containers.

“Sound of Freedom” was based on a true story but contains dramatized elements. Filmmakers took creative license in portraying the different ways that children can be trafficked, including in shipping containers.

Back in 1965, eminent film critic Pauline Kael famously called The Sound of Music “the sugar-coated lie that people seem to want to eat.” Worse, she goes on to say, “We have been turned into emotional and aesthetic imbeciles when we hear ourselves humming the sickly, goody-goody songs.”

In the book, The Sound of Music Story by Tom Santopietro, Maria took issue with how the film showed the family scaling the Alps to get to Switzerland. Had they really done that, they would have ended up in Germany.

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