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- Sex & Nudity (4)
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- Profanity (1)
- Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking (2)
- Frightening & Intense Scenes (6)
- Spoilers (4)
Certification
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Sex & Nudity
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- Glimpses and close-ups of exotic women in classy lingerie dancing in a nightclub.
- A woman is forced into prostitution. No sex or nudity involving her.
- Butt naked children seen in two scenes.
- Some mild references
Violence & Gore
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- Plenty of shootouts involving the mob, the army or the police. Characters are shot, stabbed, beaten, assassinated, blown up and physically threatened in the entire runtime of the film.
- The main setting is Vietnam where images of constant warfare and violent protests are shown onscreen. Soldiers and civilians alike are injured or killed.
- An assassin disguises his grenades as cigars.
- Terrorist bombings happen early on in the film. In one scene, a bomb disposal expert fails to defuse a bomb made by students and has both arms blown off in the explosion. Very graphic.
- Frequent, very strong bloody violence
Profanity
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- Some strong language
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
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- Smoking and Drinking is seen, especially in the nightclub scenes.
- A female singer is doped on heroin by her captors.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
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- 'Bullet In The Head' is one of John Woo's darkest and most emotional films. The whole story deals with the subject of three friends fleeing to Vietnam after committing a murder, hoping to start a new life and make a name for themselves. However, they make enemies of the local mob and witness their friendship deteriorate over the horrible experiences they go through.
- The local police and army hunt and kill people they suspect of being communist sympathisers and gleefully raid their stores.
- An extended scene of the group being captured by North Vietnamese soldiers. They witness other POWs being executed, humilated and being forced to kill each other. Very intense.
- The film's tone and subject matter is comparable to films like 'Apocalypse Now', 'Platoon' and 'The Deer Hunter'. The latter of which is referenced heavily in the P.O.W camp scene.
- The second half of the film is much more intense and emotional
- Shows the horrors of war!
Spoilers
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
- Frankie becomes a drug addict after being shot in the head.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
- Sally, the singer, is shot in the back and slowly dies before the main characters can get her to a doctor. They cast her body into the river. Very sad.
- Frankie is forced at gunpoint to execute American POWs, which ends up mentally breaking him.
- Frankie is shot in the head by Paul to keep quiet while dodging North Vietnamese soldiers. He survives but the injuries make him mentally unstable and reliant on drugs.
