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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for strong bloody violence and language throughout
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • Women in bikini seen.

Violence & Gore

  • A man's mutilated face is reconstructed by a machine after a large chunk of his face blew up from a grenade.
  • Level of violence:9.5/10.
  • A robot breaks a character's arm. No blood, but a muffled crack can be heard along with the character screaming in pain.
  • Two ships are shot down by missiles, which leaves both obliterated and all 45 people aboard are killed.
  • A character gets trapped inside a machine and is exposed to high doses of radiation. We see him twitching, and later on, vomiting and coughing from radiation poisoning.
  • There is a battle between several robotic droids and a couple of main characters. There is plenty of gun violence and a brief fistfight between two beings.
  • A man gets shot in the chest by gunfire. We briefly see blood spurt from the wound, as well as a loud splash upon impact. Mildly bloody.
  • A man is impaled through the chest with a Katana. As the sword is pulled back, blood is shown on the blade.
  • A character is stabbed in the side with a knife-like weapon.
  • A woman is brutally smacked across the face.
  • A grenade explodes inside a ship where a man, who is hunkered next to it, has his face blown off. Blood, bone matter and evident gore graphically fly from his face due to the exploding shockwave and shrapnel.
  • A ship crash lands on the Elysium space station. Everyone survives, though this is a fairly lengthy and intense scene.
  • A man stabs a woman in the throat with a shard of broken glass. Blood is clearly seen pouring from the wound, and for a moment or two, as she is on the ground, blood is spread across the area surrounding her. She bleeds to death shortly after.
  • A man picks up another man and throws him into a hard floor, killing him instantly. Then he proceeds to use the corpse as a defense by flinging it at another man, however, it hits a nearby wall instead. Nothing graphic is shown.
  • A man is shot many times, through a wall, with an experimental rifle. His arms, legs and other body parts are shot off and seen flying through the air, until the remaining body crumbles in dismembered and torn shreds. Fairly graphic.
  • Two different characters are hit in their chests with explosive throwing stars, resulting in graphic and complete obliteration.
  • A man is impaled in the hand with a knife, slicing through his skin, small amount of blood.

Profanity

  • 55 uses of "fuck", constant uses of "shit", and uses of "ass", "bitch" and "Damnit".

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • People drink beer. One man, after taking a few swigs, throws the bottle off a rooftop and swears at passersby. Several characters smoke cigarettes and what looks to be pot.
  • A regimen of pills follows Max's radiation poisoning. And he takes a whole handful of them in one go. When talking with his robotic parole officer, Max is offered a sedative in a form of a pill.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The look and feel of the movie's dystopian atmosphere may be considered unsettling for some. Especially the common theme of diversity of other social classes.
  • The main villains are psychopathic, and the leader kills others in cold blood. His bloodthirst may be unsettling to some viewers.
  • Contains harsh violence, including an unpleasant arm-breaking, and a few instances of bloody deaths.

Spoilers

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Violence & Gore

  • There is a scene consisting of brief, and vivid shots of a character getting an exo-suit. The shots involve opening the back of the characters head, and placing machinery inside, as well as drilling into bone. The scene is brief, but still very graphic.
  • The main character and the villain fight intensely, with punching, kicking, maiming, and stabbing. At one point, the villain uses a knife to slice through the hero's hands a couple of times, leaving a gashing and open wound, with deep blood dripping from it. Fairly bloody. Eventually, the hero gains the upper hand and subdues the villain, where the antagonist attempts to use a self-destruct bomb to detonate both himself and the hero. He fails, and is thrown over a ledge, where he explodes, and body parts fly in all directions below. Nothing too graphic, except for smoke and the visible body pieces flying apart.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The main character's radiation poisoning accident scene is intense, as we watch him go through various stages of radiation sickness.
  • The ending may be considered sad for some viewers, as the main character sacrifices himself to save humanity.

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