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The Rats: A Witcher Tale (2025)

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The Rats: A Witcher Tale (2025)

Overview

To pull off a daring heist, a gang of six misfit outlaws will have to do something they've never done before: trust each other — and a washed-up Witcher.


Starring Cast


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Rating & Dimensions

Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Progressive

Political: Center
Diversity: High
LGBTQ: Positive

Viewer Rating
5.1

Overview

To pull off a daring heist, a gang of six misfit outlaws will have to do something they've never done before: trust each other — and a washed-up Witcher.


Starring Cast


Where to watch

Netflix logoNetflix
Powered byJustWatch

Detailed Bias Analysis

Analyzing...
Progressive

Primary

The provided information primarily discusses the film's tonal and aesthetic choices, such as the romanticization of outlaws, rather than explicit political messaging or thematic content. Consequently, a neutral rating is assigned due to insufficient data to determine political bias.

The movie features a visibly diverse cast with a mixed-gender ensemble and actors of various ethnic backgrounds. Its narrative strongly emphasizes themes of marginalization, systemic collapse, poverty, and the resilience of youth, positioning these social justice issues as central to the story.

Secondary

The film portrays Ciri's bisexuality through a tender relationship with Mistle, directly adapting her identity from the books. While some critiques exist regarding overall narrative depth and character nuance, the depiction of the same-sex relationship itself is affirming and integral to the characters.

Based on current available information, 'The Rats: A Witcher Tale' does not appear to portray transsexual characters or explore themes of gender and sexual transformation. Plot summaries and character details focus on a group of thieves and their heist within the Witcher universe, without any indication of such themes.

The film features female characters like Falka and Ciri who engage in direct physical combat using melee weapons against male opponents, including Leo Bonhart and a monster. However, in all described encounters, the female characters are ultimately defeated and do not achieve victory against their male adversaries.

The film's main characters, including Giselher, Mistle, Iskra, Kayleigh, Reef, Asse, and Orla, are all portrayed on screen with the same gender as their established canonical counterparts in Andrzej Sapkowski's Witcher books. No characters have a gender that differs from their original source material.

All major characters in "The Rats: A Witcher Tale" are original creations for this film and do not appear in the established Witcher source material. Therefore, no character has a pre-existing canonical race to be altered, meaning no race swaps occurred.


Viewer Rating Breakdown

5.1

Viewer Rating

Combines user and critic ratings from four sources

User Ratings

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4.8
The Movie Database logo
5.4

Critic Ratings

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N/A
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N/A

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