Parents guide

A woman pulls her shirt front down. Nipples are not visible, but an amount of cleavage is shown.

A man and woman make out in bed. They are covered by the sheets.

Dr. Manhattan's full frontal and rear nudity can be seen in many scenes, as he does not wear clothes.

A naked man stands facing away from the camera and we see full rear nudity for a few moments.

A sex scene between a man and woman. Scene lasts for some minutes. We see the woman's breasts and bottom. We see the man's bare bottom and most of his body. Later we see their lying in an embrace while naked and talking for several minutes.

We see a bank of TV monitors showing all sorts of images (all fairly small), including one woman's bare breasts, topless woman having sex from behind, and a woman sucking another womans breasts.

In one scene transition the camera abruptly cuts to a close up poster of a woman's bare breasts, then slowly zooms out before cutting.

Scenes in the city show posters of nude and semi-nude male and females. Shown throughout the movie.

Four sex scenes that are slightly prolonged and include nudity.

President John F. Kennedy is shown being Assassinated with pieces of his brain flying onto the back of his convertible.

R violence type: blood, gore, brutal and graphic.

Level of violence: 9/10. Very violent and gory.

Strong graphic violence.

A man is brutally beaten by getting punched, thrown across the room, having his head smashed on a glass counter, and his arm or hand seemingly stabbed hard. We see his face covered in blood in the aftermath. He is then thrown through the window and falls to his death. We then see his corpse lying on the floor, with blood pooling on the sidewalk.

A man gets his arms cut off. Blood is seen as well as gore. We then see the bloody stumps were his arms used to be, with very brief blood spurts squirting out as the man falls dead to the ground.

There is a fight in an alley. You see a compound fracture where an elbow pops out as blood sprays, and one other arm and leg snapping/breaking. Another attacker is stabbed in the neck (though with little blood). One of them is used as a human shield and is shot in the back with spurting wounds.

A woman is shot in the leg and blood spurts out, and then her fingers are blown off. Another man is then shot between the eyes.

A man hacks another man's head with a cleaver. Matter is shown briefly.

Dr. Manhattan blows several thugs up and their blood, guts, and bones are seen splattered all over the ceiling, while surrounding woman scream covered in blood and gore from the explosions. He blows up several other people in similar style with blood, guts and bone blasting all over. None is as graphic as the bar scene.

19 uses of "fuck", 7 uses of "shit", 10 "son of a bitch", "whore", 1 "dick", 1 "asshole", 2 "ass" (whispered), 5 "bastard", 4 "hell", 14 "god damn", 1 "prick".

There's a scene that implies The Comedian to be drunk.

When the Comedian appears onscreen, he is often seen smoking a large cigar or drinking.

A few other characters also smoke and drink sometimes.

The movie has a very bleak tone.

An attempted rape scene.

Has a rape scene.

Violence against women.

Moderate/Severe for neurodivergent viewers.

The violence in this film is very intense.