Movie review
May 27, 2016 · 108 min · R
Woke Score
Lower is better
Review
The Do-Over is a 2016 buddy action-comedy in which two down-on-their-luck friends fake their deaths to escape unhappy lives and assume the identities of dead men, only to become targets in a criminal conspiracy involving a suppressed cancer cure, assassins, and personal betrayals. The story follows their misadventures across Puerto Rico and Georgia, including crude gags, a gold-digging ex-wife, a seductive widow with a deadly secret, and a final act of revenge and redemption. No audience-visible woke elements such as identity politics, activist dialogue, forced representation emphasis, or modern social-justice messaging appear in the narrative, marketing, or production.
Breakdown
These are the editorial factors and ratings behind our score for The Do-Over.
Woke representation / casting
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.
Woke political 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.
Western 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.
Woke character or canon changes
Not relevant
Anti-woke backlash and complaints
Zero recorded backlash accusing the film of woke, activist, or left-wing content; all criticism targets its old-school crudeness instead.
Creator track record context
No relevant prior work by the director, producers, or writers shows any pattern of activist or identity-driven filmmaking.
Production
