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(2013)

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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for bloody violence, crude sexual content, nudity, language throughout and drug use
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • Lots and lots of women shown in tight bras and short shorts in a gym.
  • Female breasts shown.
  • There are several scenes of female nudity.
  • A woman wears shorts that show her butt cheeks hanging out.
  • Two women come out of the pool wearing thongs.
  • Woman is shown going to get waxed- there is a close up of her underwear.
  • Camera scans a woman from thighs to head in a closeup while lying in a tanning bed she is in bikini bottoms and topless- and nipples covered.
  • Closeup shot of a womens shorts and then she lowers them wiggling around to reveal her underwear that show her butt cheeks and a guys is staring at her butt.
  • Multiple shots of women in bikini tops & thongs.
  • Commercial is shown of fully clothed man surrounded by women in skimpy bikinis.
  • Man does a cocaine line on a woman's butt wearing underwear.
  • A women wears lingerie string thong and bra and you see her butt cheeks and there is a closeup of her butt.
  • A woman is shown in a photo slide show exposing her red bra.
  • Some sexual references, dialogue and actions including references to pornography.
  • Anthony Mackie's character puts a porno in a VCR and starts to masturbate, no nudity is shown.
  • Bar Paly's character is having clothed sex with Mark Wahlberg behind a car.
  • A female character is shown giving a lap dance including dirty talk.
  • A super quick scene of Rebel Wilson's character having clothed sex with Mackie's character.
  • A woman has her dress lifted up that shows her bare butt.
  • There is a minor theme of one man having erectile dysfunction because of steroid use and it is mentioned several times both medically and to be joking towards the man.
  • A man secretly runs a sex-toy company.

Violence & Gore

  • In a flashback, a prisoner punches and kicks men and throws a free-weight disk into a man's throat, knocking him out
  • A man dressed up like a ninja and another man dressed as an alien tase a man in the cheek causing him to spit all over the place and kidnap him. They take him to the van and tase him in the chest.
  • A woman with a steroids syringe injects a man in the privates when the man is in his boxers. He screams and starts feeling good.
  • Cops and a lawyer chase a man who tries stealing a man's stuff and the robber jumps from the balcony onto the grass. The lawyer shoots the man in the leg causing him to limp and while he limps, a man with a car drives the car onto the man smashing a few stands and crashes to a wall injuring him.
  • At Home Depot, a drop of blood drops from the chainsaw onto the man's apron and hair is seen on the chainsaw.
  • Level of violence:8/10.
  • In a home, three bodybuilders argue with another man and a woman; one of the bodybuilders drops a large free weight disk on the man's head accidentally and we see a large pool of blood spread on a white carpet; the woman stumbles and dies when a bodybuilder injects her with "horse sedatives" twice

Profanity

  • 130 uses of "fuck" and its different ways of use throughout. Other language includes 23 uses of "ass", 58 uses of "shit", 7 uses of "god damn", 5 uses of "pussy", etc.
  • Infrequent uses of "cunt" and "cocksucker"

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • The Rock sniffs cocaine off of a blonde woman
  • A man injects a woman with "horse sedatives" twice and it kills her.
  • A felon is arrested after sniffing cocaine inside a house that he has broken into, we hear about steroid use among bodybuilders and see a man injected with a large syringe of steroids in the thigh, we hear that steroids can cause erectile dysfunction.
  • A man visits a clinic for erectile dysfunction and we see four large syringes of medication and as a medical assistant pulls the man's trousers at the waistband and injects him we hear her say it must go into the penis and the man grimaces in pain
  • A man uses cocaine and we see him snort it from his hand several times and from the clothed buttocks of a woman
  • Non stop references to steroid use, scenes of cocaine use, and references to AA and the challenges of being sober and hitting rock bottom.
  • There are also scenes of the effects of certain drugs. During one scene a man becomes aggressive and he cannot function successfully during exercise.
  • There are many drug users and different type of drugs used in the movie.
  • A woman accidentally overdoses on drugs that were forcibly injected in her and dies.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • This movie is very much a dark comedy.
  • The movie is inspired by a real-life extortion and murder, which may upset some viewers.
  • The movie has intense scenes throughout.
  • The chopping up of bodies and grilling of hands may be violent and disturbing.

Spoilers

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Violence & Gore

  • The protagonists kidnap and then ruthlessly torture a man. They burn his hand, beat him, etc. Then, trying to kill him, they make him crash in a car, set the car and him on fire, and then try to run over his face in a graphic closeup (crunching is heard). He survives but is severely injured.
  • There's a long sequence where several cops chase Paul after a robbery. Paul is shot at several times, and he runs into a salon and opens his bag of money but a dye pack sprays and burns his eyes. He beats up two cops and runs into a restaurant but they keep shooting at him. He runs to a motel and dives in a pond, but they keep shooting and Paul's toe is shot off (blood is shown) and the toe piece is later shown graphically with the bone clearly visible.
  • Dead bodies are almost shown getting chopped apart with chainsaws and hatchets. Blood is shown in one very brief shot along with some gore. At one point the chainsaw is shown snagging on the dead woman's hair.
  • A man grills chopped off hands. This is shown in a graphic close up.

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