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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for strong frontier combat and violence including gory images, a sexual assault, language and brief nudity
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • Implied gang rape of captured woman.
  • This movie is briefly sexual but more violent
  • A brief rape scene; not very graphic, but disturbing. Thrusting is seen.
  • A man's genitals are cut off. You don't see it happen, but are told it's going to happen, and see him running away and falling to the ground, with blood running down his legs.
  • A blurred naked man is seen dying from a distance. His genitals can be seen but are very difficult to make out and you see his butt covered in blood. Not very graphic and is in no way sexual.
  • A few dead bodies are found without clothing.
  • A man's buttocks are partially seen in one scene, although it isn't intended to be sexual.
  • A few other mild sexual references, one man in particular makes a very crude gesture of him wanting a woman with 'big tits'.

Violence & Gore

  • This movie is incredibly violent, containing strong, and brutal depictions of graphic frontier violence with bloody injury images.
  • Gunshots and gore are all very realistic
  • Most of these sequences are filled with graphic sound effects such as blades piercing flesh, blood gushing and splattering.
  • Two hunters are seen cutting up an elk, blood pours out into the river.
  • A dead body with his entrails exposed is seen on a boat for a couple of seconds.
  • A captain pulls an arrow out of an injured mans shoulder, he screams in pain, we hear the arrow graphically coming out.
  • The camera lingers on a dead body covered in blood and arrows for five seconds.
  • We see Glass's back is covered in gangrene and scars in two scenes.
  • In a chasing sequence a man shoots a few native Americans, they are killed with strong gunshots.
  • A man is shot, blood pours out onto the surface below him.
  • A woman is seen washing lots of blood off her hands.
  • Two gun shots are heard offscreen, only one character survives.
  • A man is shot in the shoulder, we see a big blood stain on his shoulder, after that an intense chasing sequence unfolds that includes some strong gunshots.
  • A massive trail of blood is seen for about ten seconds near the films end.
  • A fully nude man walks toward the camp, then collapses dead (we see blood on his neck and down his abdomen and he has an arrow in his back and we see it when he falls).
  • A man is killed and hanged on a tree.
  • The violence in The Revenant is graphic, shocking, and very gruesome
  • Animal guts are shown throughout the movie. At a camp we see tons of exposed animal guts along with bloody pelts and skinned animals.
  • Two men eat raw liver from a real life bison. The bison is shown cut open and see lots of raw bloody flesh.
  • Many fights happen in this movie, as a lot of this is mainly action and combat scenes.
  • In a scene where Native Americans are attacking a camp, a man is suddenly and very brutally shot in the face with an arrow, a Native very quickly smashes the man's face with a tomahawk. Brief but very brutal.
  • An attack on a frontier camp by Native Americans transpires. With long, sustained shots, the violence is quite strong. Numerous individuals are pierced by arrows, stabbed, clubbed and shot with blood spurts and many dead bodies are seen.
  • As a man is drinking water, blood pours out of a graphic wound on his neck and he starts to cough up blood. He heals it by rubbing gun powder on it and lighting it on fire, we hear him screaming in pain and fire sparking from his neck, he then recovers.
  • A horse falls off a cliff and loses its head after it impacts the ground, lots of blood and a few guts are seen. The horse is then graphically eviscerated. As the camera zooms out we see the graphic aftermath of the horses eviscerated corpse. Raw and bloody horse guts are shown.

Profanity

  • 15 uses of "fuck". Primarily used by Tom Hardy's character.
  • 5 uses of "son of a bitch"
  • A few uses of "shit" "damn" and "hell"
  • Derogatory terms for Native Americans are often used (tree niggers).
  • A couple uses of "God damn".

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Several men drink throughout the film.
  • A man smokes from a pipe in several different scenes.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The violence in this movie is pretty frequent, when it appears it is usually extremely graphic, in-your-face, and often very strong. Examples include; scalpings, gunshots, blood trickling, flowing, or flying, with scenes containing gore, arrow piercings, stabbings and other very gruesome moments.
  • The tone of the movie is extremely dark and emotional. Characters are seen in peril all the time. Whole film is full of intense scenes.
  • This is a VERY violent and gory film. Almost every single scene in the movie has some type of gore in it.
  • The ambush scene at the beginning and the fight at the end are full of brutal violence that goes on for several minutes with lots of blood and gore.

Spoilers

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Violence & Gore

  • A man has a flashback of a Native American village being attacked and burned to the ground. Glass's wife is shot with blood spurts, we see her dead body for ten seconds, a bird comes out of the wound in her chest. A little boys face is on fire and we see his burned skin.
  • A man attempts to suffocate a man who is barely alive, he shoves a rag into his mouth for about ten seconds.
  • A man is forcibly buried while he's alive.
  • A man sleeps inside a horse for warmth, as he exits the horses body, he is covered in blood and guts.
  • A man is shot from a far distance, we think that it's Glass but it's the captains dead body, his dead body was used as a trap for another character, we see a large blood stain on his chest.
  • At the end of a knife fight the loser of the battle is scalped and stabbed repeatedly by Native Americans, all though it is offscreen, we hear him screaming and wailing throughout. We see his dead body covered in pools of blood floating in a river.
  • During a long, uninterrupted tracking shot that lasts for several minutes (which is one of the movie's most famous scenes), a man is brutally and viciously mauled by a grizzly bear. He barely survives after being bitten, thrown and dragged around, crushed, and clawed at by the animal along with getting his foot dislocated. The bear is shot and we see the extremely gory aftermath of the attack. This includes the man's body covered in gory, realistic looking bruises and slashes, as he screams in pain and coughs up blood. The man finally manages to stab the bear on the head, killing it, blood then spills out of the bears head. This scene is extremely intense, graphic and painful to watch.
  • A child is stabbed twice, who subsequently coughs up lots of blood.
  • A main characters entire head is scalped, we see the bloody top of his skull.
  • A woman is briefly raped, the attackers testicles are sliced off, blood is pouring out from his scrotum, this is seen from a far distance.
  • A brutal knife-fight breaks out between two men, in which both participants endure bloody stab wounds and severed body parts, and chopped off limbs featuring a chunk of a mans ear being bitten off and spitten out, towards the end the ground is covered in blood along with the two fighters and two chopped off fingers.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The ending may be emotionally intense for some viewers.
  • A character continuously flashes back to his wife being killed multiple times while he's in agony.
  • The main character is often shown in great agony as he overcomes crippling wounds, hunger, cold, and pain to find the man who brutally murdered his son and left him for dead.

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