
Movie review
The Do-Over
Woke Score
Lower is better
- Release Date
- May 27, 2016
- Age Rating
- R
- Runtime
- 108 min
Where to Watch
United States · Last checked 5/13/2026
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Breakdown
Factors & Ratings
These are the editorial factors and ratings behind our score for The Do-Over.
Representation / casting choices
Paula Patton plays the lead female role as a seductive widow and plot-twist villain in a natural, story-driven capacity with no visible forced diversity, quota signaling, or identity emphasis.
Political / ideological dialogue
Script contains no activist, political, or ideological dialogue whatsoever; all humor is crude, personal, and gag-based.
Identity-driven story themes
Core narrative of friendship, fake identities, and a cancer cure conspiracy contains zero identity politics, gender themes, or representation-driven arcs.
Institutional / cultural critique
A pharmaceutical company buries a cure for profit as standard thriller villainy with no modern activist framing of systemic oppression, capitalism, patriarchy, or identity issues.
