WARWICK SHOWCASE
SOUNDS OF FREEDOM * * *

 (Faith-based Sex-trafficking Drama)

The Showcase chain has been known to fill some of its screens with faith-based movies that have a limited audience.

“Sounds of Freedom" fits the bill of an outside Hollywood-Hollywood, conservative, semi-documentary about a sensitive subject that is seldom handled by the more liberal movie-makers.

Jim Caviezel plays the stoic, former Homeland Security agent who works day and night to bring to sex traffickers near the US-Mexican border who specialize in young children.

When red tape gets in his way one time too many, he goes rogue, risking his life to save hundreds of children from these predators.

“God’s children are not for sale,” he says when asked why he does what he does.

The movie avoids any prurient overtones and pretty much sticks to the facts, but it is still hard to take, knowing what happens to these abused children and the long-term effects the experience has on them.

The movie has raised millions of dollars and is being seen by large groups of movie goers, with an added special appeal for help from Caviezel.

JOY RIDE * * (As X-rated as it gets!)

 Take three young Asian women, send them to China, and have them involve themselves in non-stop sex, drugs, booze and rock and roll.

Add a maudlin overtone about one of them looking for her birth mother and trying to “find herself.”

Make sure there are plenty of four letter words, vomiting, menage a tris, vagina jokes, and just about as low humor as the writers can get in putting garbage in their mouths.

That is “Joy Ride.” An insult to some fine Asian actors who must put up with racial slurs and epithets to squeeze out low level jokes before they all find that friendship is the most important thing in life regardless of your ethnicity.

Enough already!

NETFLIX
THE OUT-LAWS * *
 (Outlandishly Bad Comedy)

Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison production company has come up with one of the most trite, dull, stupid movies of the year.

Adam Devine stars as a nerdy bank manager about to marry the love of his life.

But first, she must meet his family, and then he must meet hers.

His family are literally a bunch of idiots. Hers are bank robbers.

When Mom and Dad rob Owen’s bank, all heck breaks lose, leading to Owen and his family getting involved in another bank robbery.

The most ridiculous scene has the bank robbers chased by the cops and more bad guys, literally wrecking a cemetery. Talk about sacrilegious, it’s not even funny.

Oh well, Netflix can’t get them all right.