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Since the beliefs that parents want to instill in their children can vary greatly, we ask that, instead of adding your personal opinions about what is right or wrong in a film, you use this feature to help parents make informed viewing decisions by describing the facts of relevant scenes in the title for each one of the different categories: Sex and Nudity, Violence and Gore, Profanity, Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking, and Frightening/Intense Scenes.
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Sex & Nudity

3/10

Several intense kissing scenes and prostitutes are seen and hired on numerous occasions. No explicit or even implied sex seen.

Ray talks about Belgian child abuse murders which may offend some

A priest is implied to be a child molseter.

Violence & Gore

8/10

A man is shot in the chest several times.

A child is seen to have been shot in the head, quite shocking.

A fight in a restaurant where a man is punched and a woman attempts to crack the attacker round the head with a bottle before being punched herself.

A man shoots a blank into another man's right eye, leaving him blind in that eye.

Two men struggle over a gun, and one of them gets shot in the neck, with a steady stream of blood blasting from the wound. He then walks up some steps and you see very large puddles of blood.

A man jumps off a tower and you see him slam to the ground, where he partially - but messily - explodes. He lands in the background and is partially obscured, but there is still substantial blood splatter. We then see a close-up of the dying man covered in blood and with parts of his stomach and arm on the ground. This is probably the most graphic scene.

A man chases another man, and shoots him in the lower part of his stomach four times. Graphic wounds are seen and blood pours out.

A guard is beaten badly with the butt of a gun; we see shadows of the assault on a wall. It is not revealed whether the attack killed the man.

A man shoots another man by accident, and the victim's head is seen briefly in the background - it has been reduced to mush.

A man places a gun in his mouth and shoots, causing blood to briefly spray out from behind his head.

Profanity

9/10

Lots of blasphemy; 126 'f' words; 14 instances of 'c' word; at least 25 uses of the 's' word. There are a large amount of other profanities and obscenities as well throughout.

Non-obscene, yet potentially offensive remarks about disability.

Some racially insensitive remarks from the perspectives of certain characters.

7/10

Characters drink frequently and in one scene use cocaine.

Several characters refer to their own drug use and to that of others. One character is a drug dealer; another steals her drug supply and sells it.

A fight starts over one character's smoking in a restaurant.

Multiple drug references throughout the film. Names of drugs used.

6/10

There are very intense violent scenes.

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MPAA:
Rated R for strong bloody violence, pervasive language and some drug use
Certification:
UK:18 / Ireland:16 (theatrical rating) / USA:R (certificate #43954) / Netherlands:16 / Germany:16 / Finland:K-15 / Canada:13+ (Québec) / Canada:14A (Manitoba) / South Africa:16LV / Canada:18A (Alberta/British Columbia/Ontario) / Australia:MA / Austria:14 / New Zealand:R16 / Argentina:16 / Ireland:18 (DVD rating) / Singapore:M18 (cut) / Brazil:16 / Portugal:M/16 / South Korea:18 / Spain:18 / Chile:14 / Mexico:C / Sweden:15 (DVD rating) / Iceland:12 (video rating) / Iceland:16 (theatrical rating) / France:U (with warning) / Peru:14

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