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The Guard (2011)

Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Viewer Rating
Rating: 7.9
The Guard poster

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


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Bias Dimensions

Political: Center
Diversity: Moderate
LGBTQ: Neutral
Christianity: Negative
Islam: Positive
Judaism: Positive

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


Where to watch

Apple TV logoApple TV
Google Play logoGoogle Play
Fandango
Powered byJustWatch

Detailed Bias Analysis

Analyzing...
Center

Primary

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.

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

The film includes a transgender sex worker character whose portrayal is neither strongly positive nor negative. The protagonist's initial crude interactions evolve into a more respectful and philosophical exchange, demonstrating a nuanced, if incidental, depiction. The character's presence primarily serves to add depth to the main character rather than explore LGBTQ+ themes in depth.

The film, primarily through its protagonist Sergeant Boyle, consistently portrays Catholicism with cynicism and irreverence. Boyle's frequent sacrilegious jokes and observations highlight hypocrisy and superficiality in religious observance, without any significant counterbalancing positive depiction or narrative condemnation of his views.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

7.9

Viewer Rating

Combines user and critic ratings from four sources

User Ratings

IMDB logo
7.3
The Movie Database logo
7.0

Critic Ratings

Rotten Tomatoes logo
9.4
Metacritic logo
7.8

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