7.9
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Action, Comedy, Thriller, Crime • 2011 • 96 min • Adults (18+)
The Guard (2011)
The Guard (2011)
Overview
When a small-town Irish cop with a crass personality is partnered with a straight-laced FBI agent to bust an international drug-trafficking ring, they must settle their differences in order to take down a dangerous gang.
Starring Cast
Brendan Gleeson • Don Cheadle • Mark Strong
Where to watch
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Political: Center
Diversity: Moderate
LGBTQ: Neutral
Islam: Positive
Judaism: Positive
Viewer Rating
7.9
Overview
When a small-town Irish cop with a crass personality is partnered with a straight-laced FBI agent to bust an international drug-trafficking ring, they must settle their differences in order to take down a dangerous gang.
Starring Cast
Brendan Gleeson • Don Cheadle • Mark Strong
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Center
Primary
Political: Center
Confidence: High
The film's central focus on character, dark humor, and cultural clashes, coupled with an individualistic and unconventional solution to crime and corruption, prevents it from explicitly promoting a specific political ideology.
Diversity: Moderate
Confidence: High
The movie includes visible diversity in its main cast with a Black actor portraying a key character. The narrative primarily focuses on character interactions and cultural differences, without explicitly critiquing traditional identities or making DEI themes central to its plot.
Secondary
LGBTQ: Neutral
Confidence: Low
The film features a brief, non-judgmental interaction between the main character and two male prostitutes. Their LGBTQ+ identity is present but not central to the narrative, and the portrayal avoids strong positive or negative arcs, leading to a neutral overall impact.
Islam: Positive
Confidence: Medium
A character makes a prejudiced and stereotypical comment conflating Arabs with terrorism, but the film's narrative uses this to highlight the character's bigotry and satirize prejudice, not to validate the negative portrayal of Islam or Arabs.
Judaism: Positive
Confidence: Medium
The film portrays a character making a prejudiced remark about Jewish people, but the narrative clearly frames this as bigotry, using it to satirize prejudice itself rather than endorsing the negative stereotype.
Trans: N/A
Confidence: High
The film 'The Guard' does not include any identifiable transsexual characters or themes. The narrative focuses on other aspects, and there is no depiction of transgender identity to evaluate within the story.
Female Combat: No
Confidence: High
The film does not feature any female characters engaging in direct physical combat. The primary action sequences involve male characters in confrontations, primarily using firearms, with no instances of women defeating men in close-quarters fighting.
Gender Swap: No
Confidence: High
The Guard is an original film with no prior source material, historical figures, or legacy characters. All characters were created specifically for this movie, meaning none could have been established as a different gender in previous canon or history.
Race Swap: No
Confidence: High
The Guard is an original film with characters created specifically for its screenplay. There are no pre-existing source materials, historical figures, or prior adaptations from which characters' races could have been established and subsequently changed.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
7.3
7.0
Critic Ratings
9.4
7.8
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