Alejandro Monteverde's "Sound of Freedom" neither sensationalizes nor sentimentalizes its subject which is the sex trafficking of children, but neither does it engage us on an emotional level. Based on fact, it's the story of how Tim Ballard left his job in Homeland Security to go to Columbia to rescue children trafficked into slavery there.
Part of the problem is that Jim Caviezel who plays Ballard is totally devoid of personality and it's almost impossible to engage with him. Is he an action hero or a living saint and is this meant to be an action movie with a big heart? You can certainly say director Monteverde's heart is in the right place and there are scenes here both moving and disturbing but ultimately this is a film that fails to do its terrible subject justice. Superb cinematography by Gorka Gomez Andreu and another sterling performance from Bill Camp as an altruistic paedophile hunter just aren't enough. No disgrace but it could have been so much more.
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