3.7
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Sleeping Dogs (1997)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Viewer Rating
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
Bias Dimensions
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
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.
Based solely on the provided title and director, there are no explicit indications of diversity, equity, or inclusion efforts in casting or narrative framing. The assessment defaults to traditional characteristics in both representation and narrative due to the absence of specific content details.
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 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
N/A
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