Caviezel is best known for films like The Passion of the Christ and Sound of Freedom, but in Ghost Soldier, he's not turning the other cheek. Instead, he's wearing futuristic stealth cloaking technology and raining down hellfire on corporate hitmen. Caviezel does get some lines that nod to his religious roots. In the trailer for Ghost Soldier, he notes, coolly, "God will judge our enemies; I’ll just arrange the meeting."
Ghost Soldier appears to stick to the formula that works for movies like John Wick, The Beekeeper, Nobody, and The Equalizer. Caviezel plays an "old-school green beret with advanced military training," according to a character played by Shea Whigham, meaning the hired hitmen terrorizing the salt-of-the-earth folks in Ghost Soldier have seriously underestimated him as a threat. The story of Ghost Soldier appears to be that Bahraini-owned conglomerate Brownstone Interworks — not BlackRock, mind you — has acquired rights to a plot of land that the C-suite wants to claim by any means necessary. Agents for Brownstone violently threaten the people residing on that land, which includes the parents and child of a deceased U.S. military veteran.
Enter Caviezel as Henry “Fitz” Fitzgerald, "a solitary man with a mysterious past, living a quiet life off the grid in his hometown," according to Sony Pictures' synopsis, which reads:
When a powerful foreign corporation descends on his community determined to seize his and his neighbors’ land for a massive payday, Fitz takes action — he’s actually a former Special Forces soldier and advanced weapons developer. Armed with weapons no one has ever seen, a lifetime of lethal military training, and an unwavering code of justice, Fitz becomes the one thing his enemies never anticipated: a one-man war they can’t win.
Fitz isn't just deadly with a bow and arrow, he's an expert sniper and explosives specialist who says stuff like "Corporate tyranny is still tyranny" while hyper-capably meting out justice. Fitz has Ghost Recon Future Soldier/Splinter Cell gear at his disposal, including an invisibility cloak and the kind of night vision mask that lets you do stealth murder while looking like a badass tech demon. It looks like the kind of movie you can watch with your dad, regardless of your conflicting politics. (It's also rated PG-13, so it can't be that violent.)
Ghost Soldier is directed by William Eubank, who previously helmed Land of Bad and Underwater, from a screenplay by Chris Papasadero. Joining Jim Caviezel and Shea Whigham in the action-thriller are Olivia Thirlby (Dredd), Beau Knapp (Tulsa King), and Garret Dillahunt (who can also be seen currently riding a horse in HBO's Lanterns).
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