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(2009)

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Certification

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MPAA Rated PG-13 for some violence, language including sexual references, and brief drug content
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • About 1 hour 16 minutes into the movie, there's a picture shown of a man (Ben Affleck) with two topless women on each of his side. One topless woman's (right breast) is nude. Her left breast is almost completely covered with a rose pastie. The second woman's breast is implied to be naked (covered by her hair).
  • There is talk about extra-marital affairs

Violence & Gore

  • A character runs into the street without looking and is hit by a motorcycle. He hides from an unseen pursuer until he is shot. Another character passing the scene is also shot twice, landing in a coma. We briefly see the crime scene shortly after
  • A character is seen waiting for a train when something unseen happens to her. We later learn she was pushed onto the tracks and died.
  • A sniper shoots a man and injures another person.
  • A character, desperate to escape, grabs onto a car driving out to escape from an assassin. The assassin shoots the back window before shooting the man in the hand, forcing him to fall off the car (he is seen with a head wound after). The car then collides head-on with a police car.
  • We later learn a character has been killed offscreen in a probable homicide. (Implied to have been assassinated)
  • A man is shown punching and assaulting another person (mouth is shown bloody). Nothing too graphic.

Profanity

  • At least 2 "f" words, 15 "shit", words, 4 slang terms for sex ("knobbing," "screwing," "shagging" and another one), 1 using male genitals ("dick"), 11 hells, 5 asses (2 used with "hole"), 2 damns, 1 bugger, 1 crap, 1 wanker, 3 uses of "Oh my God," 2 of "Oh God" and 1 use each of "Christ," "For Christ's sakes," "God," "Jesus Christ," "My God" and "Oh for Christ's sakes."

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • The main character is seen drinking whiskey in several scenes, with other people.
  • Several characters are illegal drug junkies, but no use is actually seen.
  • A man is said to be smoking "spliffs" in a closet. (not seen)
  • A man smokes in a non-smoking hotel room even after another person tells him not to.
  • Several characters are seen drinking beers.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • A man is chased by an unseen assailant before abruptly being shot.
  • A man is about to get into his car when another man threatens to shoot him.

Spoilers

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Violence & Gore

  • A man is shot by police in the end (No blood is shown).

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • A man in a hospital bed is unexpectedly shot through a window and another is injured
  • A man encounters a man he recognises as an assassin and has to escape him in the parking lot.

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