Let's see... The Sound of Freedom has 75% from the Hollywood critics and a 99% audience score, and this is the main, headline review choice by Google?!
(media.patriots.win)
🤢 TECH SCUMBAGS 🤢
I don't think the critique is about the subject but rather the actual movie mechanics.
So a teacher I know, that has to read and grade papers and stories for English AP has discussed this with me before. She explained that if she graded every paper on moral or emotional grounds, she'd be giving out A's to most everyone. But they still wouldn't be punctuating properly, and they'd be using run on sentences and would be getting screwed because the opportunity to learn was undermined by kids that use manipulate to get the grade. So she makes it clear that just because your grandma was a real hard luck story with very emotional parts, I'm not giving you an A for just using my emotions.
During awards season, you'll sometimes notice the Academy will make winners out of any movie that highlights slavery, or underprivileged people overcoming or any number of subjects that seemingly HAVE to be acknowledged as GREAT regardless of how well it was executed. This angers anons and many normal people alike. And it's easy to see why and how it's kind of pathetic.
This is what is going on, but this time we are on the other end of it all. At least that's what I think is going on.
You described exactly what I was thinking. We are emotionally blinded. I will write a quick review tomorrow after my family sees it. We are all too emotionally invested in it. I know movies. I can tell in a heart beat if something is off or lame or whatever. Movies were my whole life growing up.