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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for strong graphic violence, and for strong language
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • While checking for a tracking device, a woman is touching a man's groin. No nudity is shown and the man asks if everything is normal.
  • Van Damme crashes through a motel room wall and we see a couple naked in bed presumably after sex no nudity is shown. Later the two protagonists have to hide in the same bed under the blanket with the naked couple; once again, no nudity.
  • A brothol is shown in one scene were neon lights are shaped like breasts and prostitutes are shown around it in revealing clothing (no nudity or sexual activity shown)
  • A man's buttocks is shown.

Violence & Gore

  • During a Vietnam war flashback, a man shoots another man, and the man who was shot impales him with a bayonet and both shoot each other a lot with lots of blood. Both die.
  • Several soldiers raid a station at a dam in which several men hold hostages. The soldiers shoot all the men, graphically killing them.
  • A man crashes through several walls in a motel, and outside, a group of men shoot up the motel trying to kill him.
  • A man beats up several men in a diner.
  • Several men in a truck pursue a man and woman in a car. The woman jumps out, and the truck overturns the car. The man shoots the truck driver and jumps off, and the car is pushed over a cliff and explodes below.
  • A man shoots several soldiers as he and a woman escape a compound.
  • A man is seen with a necklace he made out of severed human ears.
  • A man has a bloody bullet wound, and he cauterizes it by burning it with a hot device.
  • A man shoots another man in the eye and one more in the head
  • Level of violence:9/10.
  • Heavy, graphic violence including many shootings with moderate to high amounts of bloodshed.
  • A man impales another man in the back of his head with a needle. He then shoots a second man graphically.

Profanity

  • 19 uses of "f*ck" (2 paired with "mother").
  • 25 uses of "sh*t".
  • 6 uses of "*ss" (3 used as "*sshole").
  • 4 uses of "b*tch".

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Many people smoke frequently.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The opening scene is dark and very intense, as well as a pretty realistic depiction of the horrors of war and war crimes committed by US soldiers in Vietnam.
  • Dolph Lundgren's character is an utter psychopath who kills many, including innocent civilians, and collects their ears for a sick necklace.
  • Lots of innocent people die. In the very beginning, there's an entire village slaughtered and a man tries to force another to kill an innocent couple. When he refuses, he shoots the innocent man in the head and kills the fleeing woman with a grenade.
  • Many intense scenes of violence, as well as a long car chase towards the end of the movie.

Spoilers

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Violence & Gore

  • There's a long and violent fight between two men in the end, with brutal punches and kicks thrown. Both bleed and crash into objects, and one of them is finally impaled on a combine harvester, through the limbs and neck.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The alternate ending is pretty emotionally intense as it results in Deveraux being fatally wounded, refusing medical attention, and dying months later with his real family.

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