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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for strong violence and language throughout
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • Comedic crude and sexual references in a few scenes.
  • No sex or nudity in any of the scenes in this movie.
  • Near the beginning of the movie a women is shown lying in bed and the upper part of her breast is shown.
  • A woman in a window in underwear, and in bra. Very brief.

Violence & Gore

  • There's a large-scale car chase in Amsterdam and several bad guys chase Bryce and Kincaid through the streets. Lots of shooting and destruction. A car crashes into a river at one point. Bryce jumps his motorcycle off of the street, onto the top of a boat, off of that and onto a bridge where he knocks out a bad guy.
  • 67 people are killed during this movie mostly by shooting, but also stabbing, strangling, beatings and being thrown off a building. Multiple instances of people shot with blood shown.
  • A man removes a bullet out of his leg. Fairly graphic.
  • A montage of several hitmen being badly beaten.
  • A mother and child are shot, offscreen, in front of the father.
  • A transport dragnet is attacked, and a car explodes and flips. The people inside fire at the attackers, and many people are shot and killed during the exchange, often with graphic blood spurts. A man escapes and shoots many bad guys attacking him, but gets shot in the leg, and some blood is seen.
  • Two men get into a fist fight in an apartment room. One of them kicks the other in his bullet-wounded leg, and the leg begins bleeding profusely.
  • A man is shot in the head through an airplane window in the beginning, and blood spatters all over the window.
  • Two men get ambushed on a country road, and they take cover behind a car. One of them shoots the three ambushers, all in the head, with brief blood spurts seen, and then their car blows up and knocks the two to the ground. They get up, but fireworks in the trunk ignite and hit another car, blowing it up too.
  • There's a scene in which Bryce follows Kincaid around Amsterdam, silently taking out assailants as they attempt to get Kincaid.
  • Kincaid shoots and kills a group of bad guys in a stairwell, and he and Bryce make their way through the building, and Kincaid shoots another man while Bryce beats up several others. They get to the roof, and Kincaid jumps off, hitting the nearby scaffolding and falling through it, landing in a dumpster.
  • There's an intense car chase in which several cars full of bad guys chase Kincaid. Lots of shooting and destruction. Several cars are rammed, crashed, and smashed, and it ends when the last car of bad guys is hit by a truck and explodes.
  • In a flashback, a woman gets into a bloody bar fight with a few men, and she punches and kicks them, and stabs them with broken bottles. One man is stabbed in the arm pit with blood spraying, and another man is stabbed in the neck, and blood spurts and pours. Fairly graphically, despite having a lighter tone.
  • Kincaid accidentally hits a sign while driving, and Bryce flies through the windshield and lands in the street.
  • Bryce is tied to a chair, and a few other men put a wet rag over his face, and electrocute his head with cables. Kincaid arrives, and fights and kills all of the men, electrocuting the torturer to death, stabbing another man in the back, and beating the last one. He carries Bryce out of the building and shoots a few other bad guys who try to follow.
  • A man is stabbed in the distance, blood is seen spraying from his neck for a moment and he is also seen spitting up blood.
  • Several men pursue a man into a kitchen, and a brutal fist fight occurs in which a man is burned twice on a grill, and others are punched and kicked. The last man pursues the target into a tool store, and a brutal fight takes place in which the attacker is stabbed with a fire axe and shot in the head with a nail gun, and finally choked out with a chain and shot from the back three times, with bloody bullet wounds.

Profanity

  • 79+ uses of "fuck", 61 uses of "shit", among other milder profanities.
  • The Lord's name is taken in vain, including 'God' said 26 times and 'Jesus' and 'Jesus Christ' are said.
  • 'Godd*mn' is said.
  • 'H*ll' is said.
  • 'D*ck' is said as an insult.
  • 'B*tch' is said at least five times.
  • '*ss' is said.
  • 'P*ssy' is said as an insult.
  • 'Sh*t' is said 61 times.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • A man drinks shots to drown his sorrow at one point.
  • Two instances of cigarette smoking.
  • Cocaine is mentioned throughout the movie, though it's never seen or used.
  • A man shoves several pills into his mouth from a table.
  • A scene takes place in a bar.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The torture scene and subsequent fight scene is intense.
  • The main antagonist is a bloodthirsty dictator who's not above slaughtering innocents to further his agenda.
  • Despite the high level of over-the-top strong violence, the film has a lighter, almost comedic, tone most of the time.
  • The almost constant violence and killing may be frightening for some viewers.
  • The two main characters are on the run for most of the film.

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Violence & Gore

  • A man is kicked off of a building and lands on top of a car, and dies.
  • A truck with C4 crashes near a building in the end, and the truck flips, causing a massive explosion. During this sequence, Bryce is shot and blood is seen, and Kincaid takes down several soldiers and chases a man to the roof. A woman and man fight in a hallway and Bryce shoots the man, and Kincaid shoots the man in the shoulder on the roof. A helicopter shoots at him, and something on the roof explodes, and he shoots one of the men in the shoulder, and blood spurts, and he shoots the pilot, and the copter crashes into the roof resulting in a massive explosion. Constantly violence and occasional blood.

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