3.7
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Sleeping Dogs (1997)
Sleeping Dogs (1997)
Overview
A master jewel thief in 21st century Los Angeles targets the illegal emerald smuggling operations of a highly-connected crime syndicate. During what he believes to be a routine heist, cat burglar Harry Maxwell discovers that his target, notorious criminal Sanchez Boon is also the target of a police raid. In attempting to evade both the law and Boon's well-armed men, Harry meets Pandora Grimes, one of dozens of young women Boon kidnapped to work in his factory. When Boon sets a group of social deviants free and hijacks a space transport ship and its crew, only Harry and Pandora's cunning can save the hundreds of innocent people aboard.
Starring Cast
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Viewer Rating
3.7
Overview
A master jewel thief in 21st century Los Angeles targets the illegal emerald smuggling operations of a highly-connected crime syndicate. During what he believes to be a routine heist, cat burglar Harry Maxwell discovers that his target, notorious criminal Sanchez Boon is also the target of a police raid. In attempting to evade both the law and Boon's well-armed men, Harry meets Pandora Grimes, one of dozens of young women Boon kidnapped to work in his factory. When Boon sets a group of social deviants free and hijacks a space transport ship and its crew, only Harry and Pandora's cunning can save the hundreds of innocent people aboard.
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Primary
The film is a character-driven crime thriller centered on a detective's personal quest to uncover the truth of a past murder and his own involvement, making it largely apolitical by focusing on universal themes of memory, justice, and individual determination within a genre framework.
The movie features a predominantly white main cast without explicit race or gender swaps of traditionally white roles. Its narrative, a crime thriller, does not appear to critically portray traditional identities or center on explicit DEI themes.
Secondary
No information is available for a film titled 'Sleeping Dogs' directed by 'Micheal Bafaro'. Consequently, an evaluation of LGBTQ+ characters or themes cannot be performed, resulting in a determination of N/A for depiction.
The film "Sleeping Dogs" (1997) is an action-thriller centered on a man with amnesia. Based on available information, the movie does not feature any transsexual characters or explore related themes, resulting in no depiction to evaluate.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The film "Sleeping Dogs" (1997) is an original production and not an adaptation of pre-existing material with established characters, nor a biopic. Therefore, there are no characters whose canonical or historical gender could have been swapped.
There is no widely established source material or historical record for the 1997 film "Sleeping Dogs" to determine if any character's race was altered from a prior depiction. Therefore, no race swap can be identified.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
3.5
3.9
Critic Ratings
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