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(2010)

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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for strong violence, pervasive language, some sexuality and drug use
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • Woman lifts up dress and sits in a mans lap. They begin to have sex. Thrusting and moaning is shown. No nudity
  • A woman's breast (a stripper) is shown for a split-second as part of a montage for cleaning money at a strip club. If you blink you'll miss it.
  • The male protagonist appears in a strip club for about five seconds, during which there is a flash of a dancer's backside ( in a thong) Then there is a blip showing a shirtless woman swinging sideways on a pole.
  • A man is shown on top of a woman with the covers, covering his bottom half. They kiss. Probably about 15-20 seconds.

Violence & Gore

  • A man walks into a flower shop and kills two men. One is shot in the head, blood splatters onto a window. The other man is shot multiple times. No blood on his chest but there is a minimal amount of blood on his leg. He is shot in the testicles offscreen.
  • There's a brief flashback of a man shooting another man in the back multiple times.
  • This movie has a ton of shooting! There are several gunfights, three with briefly bloody results.
  • A man hits a man's head three times with a rifle. The head is briefly seen bloody along with blood on the floor
  • Two gangsters receive several bloodless blows, one has a bottle smashed on his head. His hand is hit with a sledgehammer. And he is shot in the knees twice with blood spurts. There is blood on the floor
  • A policeman shoves a criminal's cheek against a glass table, pushes him roughly, and hits him in the chest with a rifle.
  • A SWAT team shoots a man through the windsheild several times when he tries to escape in an ambulance. You later see his bloody head leaning onto a driving wheel briefly.
  • A grenade is thrown into a garage. The explosion causes a mans ear drum to burst. Blood is briefly shown coming out of his ear. He is then shot in the head. Blood briefly sprays.
  • During an armored truck robbery a guard is gunned down by a bank robber. He is wearing a bullet proof vest but the scene is still surprising. There is also a gun battle between the robbers and the police.

Profanity

  • 155 uses of "fuck", 18 uses of "shit", 6 uses of "asshole", 3 uses of "bitch", 2 uses of "dick", "hell", and "cunt", as well as 6 uses of "Jesus Christ", 4 uses of "Goddamn", 1 use of "cocksucker"

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • The main characters are briefly shown buying a pound of marijuana and selling it
  • A brief scene of a man snorting cocaine.
  • A man crushes a tablet presumably oxycontin on the base of a glass bottle and snorts it through a straw.
  • A woman is arrested for DWI with a child in the car after crashing into a light pole (a man says she tested positive for cocaine, Oxycontin and alcohol.)
  • A woman carries a small vial of what is implied to be drugs (she offers some to a man who turns her down.)
  • FBI agents bust into a mans house and find lots of oxycontin and cocaine. He and his girlfriend are drug dealers
  • On multiple occasions men and women drink alcoholic drinks at bars and at a picnic.
  • A man is seen holding a cigarette, and a man discusses how another man had stolen cartons of cigarettes and drank a case of beer.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • While the opening is quite tense, the finale ramps up the tension quite a bit.
  • Strong, gritty violence. The violence isn't necessarily bloody but is still intense.
  • Some intense robberies and police chases.
  • When committing robbery, the men wear scary-looking masks.

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Violence & Gore

  • A bank robber and an FBI get into a shootout. The robber is shot in the leg with a shotgun, blood sprays. The FBI agent shoots the robber twice, once in the jaw, once in the temple. You see blood wounds in both places and there's a post behind him with splattered blood on it for a few brief seconds, seen from a distance.

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