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(2012)

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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for violence, language, sexuality/nudity and some drug use
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • Two men are in bed together and they begin kissing each other. Later a naked man and woman have sex on the floor. The woman grinds on top of the man.
  • Some verbal sex references as a man is accused of sodomy.
  • At 0:56 a man goes down on a woman. No nudity shown.
  • At 0:58 a semi nude man and a woman prepare for sex. No genitalia or breasts shown in the scene. Two people walk into the room. The man gets up and covers his genitalia with a cat and then falls out of a window.
  • At 2:22 many nude female bodies seen at a distance. Details not visible.
  • One mild sex scene occurs, a man sleeps with another man's wife, her breasts are visible briefly.
  • Multiple topless women are shown in a scene, but not in a sexual context.
  • A couple have sex in graphic detail, both are fully naked on the floor with the woman on top. She moves her hips rhythmically as he thrusts upwards into her, this scene lasts around a minute.

Violence & Gore

  • A man throws another from a building. The impact is seen with blood and viscera splattering everywhere.
  • There are several scenes depicting or implying cannibalism, both of adults and - more disturbingly - children.
  • Several people have their throats cut on screen, blood everywhere.
  • A slave is being whipped onscreen.
  • There is a scene showing from a certain distance a human slaughterhouse where women are dismembered and decapitated.
  • There is an after fight scene where the impaled decapitated head of someone is shown behind a character.
  • Two death scenes take place involving a gun in someone's mouth. The first is sudden, and we see blood spray onto the wall and bed behind the victim. In the second instance, we hear the gunshot, and later see the bloody results.
  • A futuristic chase scene with plenty of gunshots and explosions.
  • A dog is shot offscreen.
  • A woman while driving, is forced off of a bridge into the water.

Profanity

  • So many profanities that I lost count.
  • 22 f-words, and three uses of the c-word. Several uses of s__t, damn, hell, and other profanity.
  • Racial slurs and speech are rather prominent in this film, as racism/classism/dehumanization/etc is an underlying theme throughout the film.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Many smoke cigarettes throughout the movie. Alcohol is consumed at some points as well.
  • Marijuana is smoked a few times during the 70's scenes.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • There is an character that is the personification of a character's dark thoughts who appears several times behind them in the shadows. They have a green face and long black hairs for fingernails with an ominous voice urging the other character to do bad things.
  • Most of the violent scenes are intense.
  • A lot of racism and otherwise dehumanization of minorities is depicted throughout the film, which may disturb some.

Spoilers

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Sex & Nudity

  • A man stands behind a woman with a tube of cream in his hand. He simulates thrusting her from behind to make people laugh around him using the tube as a prop for his penis. He then squirts the cream all over her simulating that he has ejaculated. It's not graphic and is done for comedic affect.

Violence & Gore

  • Multiple women are slaughtered like pigs. There is lots of blood. Later, their carcasses, dressed in a meat processing plant, are seen.
  • A man is repeatedly forced to consume poison.
  • A plane carrying many passengers (including one of the film's main characters) explodes on take-off.
  • Woman is killed by a remote controlled explosive collar, causing blood to spurt everywhere. It is later revealed that all clones are eventually killed, and literally fed to the next generation of clones. The clones are killed by an (sort of) electric chair, decapitated (offscreen), and then shipped around a factory to be converted into foodstuff. We see thousands of hanging, bloody bodies without heads.
  • Brutal fights take place between Zachary's tribe and Kona barbarians. A man has his throat slit (seen at a distance), a young boy is shot and killed by a crossbow, and a village is destroyed. We see heads stuck onto pikes and burning houses and corpses.
  • There are several other scenes of violence throughout the film, some stronger than others, but none of them are very long. The camera watches a man's fall from the top of a skyscraper as he hits the ground, with blood and guts flying forth. Autua is seen being whipped, we see some bloody scars. A shootout and chase in San Francisco involves a violent car crash, a few mild wounds, and a man receiving several blows to the head from a wrench, causing blood to ooze. An airplane explodes, a man dies after being hit in the head with a trunk of gold (we see blood ooze).
  • A rather violent (yet comedic) bar fight causes a man's tooth to be dislodged. We see a keg smashed over someone's head, tables turned, and people mercilessly punched and kicked. Autua gets into a fight with the doctor in the hull of the ship, and at one point, bites the man to get him away.

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