Edge of Darkness
AI Woke Score
No detectable agenda — story first.
confidence: medium
Audience Score
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The Verdict
A grim, conventional revenge thriller with a grieving father hunting his daughter's killers. Its themes target corporate and government corruption, not identity politics, and contain no notable progressive identity messaging. Essentially clean across all axes.
What the AI Flagged
Each axis scored 0–100, with the receipts. The headline score weights the worst offense, so a single egregious element isn't diluted by the rest.
Identity Swaps
0No established characters are race- or gender-swapped; original/adapted thriller cast.
Girlboss & Male Demotion
5Male-led revenge thriller with no anti-male messaging.
LGBTQ+ / Trans / Non-Binary Content
0No LGBTQ+ themes or characters present.
DEI Casting
5Casting fits a contemporary American setting with no quota-driven choices.
Preachiness
15Has anti-corporate-corruption and government-collusion themes but folds them into the thriller plot rather than sermonizing.
- Corporate cover-up of nuclear/weapons malfeasance drives the plot
Anti-Masculinity / Anti-West
5No anti-masculinity or anti-West framing; standard corporate-villain thriller.
Source Betrayal
10Adapted from a 1985 British miniseries with changes, but those are creative/setting transpositions, not identity-driven rewrites.
- Relocated from UK to Boston with condensed runtime
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Cast & Crew
Mel Gibson
Craven
Ray Winstone
Jedburgh
Danny Huston
Jack Bennett
Bojana Novaković
Emma Craven
Shawn Roberts
Burnham
David Aaron Baker
Millroy
Jay O. Sanders
Whitehouse
Denis O'Hare
Moore
Damian Young
Senator Jim Pine
Frank Grillo
Agent One
Martin Campbell (Director) · Suzanne Warren (Executive Producer) · Gail Lyon (Executive Producer) · E. Bennett Walsh (Executive Producer)
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