It featured an intense Jesus in The Passion of the Christ, and even in real life, as is well known, he is a fervent Catholic and also a staunch conservative who does not shy away from pushing forward his ideas and his battles even through cinema. But Ghost Soldier, an action thriller coming to theaters soon, does not seem to be a film that is (too) politically oriented. Written by the newcomer Chris Papasadero and directed by William Eubank – the man behind the excellent Underwater and Land of Bad – the film sees Caviezel in the role of Henry “Fitz” Fitzgerald, a solitary man with a mysterious past, who leads a quiet life far from everything and everyone in his hometown. But when a powerful foreign multinational swoops into his community, determined to seize his land and that of his neighbors for colossal gain, Fitz decides to act: he is in fact a former special forces soldier and a developer of advanced weapons. Equipped with weapons no one has ever seen, with lethal military training honed over a lifetime, and with an unshakable code of justice, Fitz becomes the one thing his enemies never would have anticipated: a war waged by a single man they cannot defeat. The cast also includes Olivia Thirlby, Beau Knapp, Garret Dillahunt and Shea Whigham.
Here is the official trailer for Ghost Soldier.
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