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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for violence and language
Certification

Sex & Nudity

Violence & Gore

  • A boy hits a man in the back with a wrench.
  • A woman hits a man twice with a fire extinguisher and runs away.
  • A man holds another man at gunpoint, who detonates a makeshift bomb and escapes.
  • A man knocks out another man.
  • There's an intense car chase, and both drivers. ram their cars into each other before one is forced to stop.
  • A man breaks his own thumb (mildly graphic).
  • A man's leg gets injured; quite bloody. He's seen stitching it up.
  • A man shoots a cop (some blood seen) after holding another man hostage and flees.
  • A man beats up several people in an operation room, lighting one on fire, and escapes.
  • A man shoots a propane bomb, which explodes, blowing up part of a building (no one is injured).
  • A child is often seen with a perpetual bloody nose.
  • Various body parts are seen in a lab (not scary or violent).

Profanity

  • 15 uses of "fuck", 6 uses of "shit", 4 uses of "bitch", 2 uses of "hell", 2 uses of "ass" (1 paired with "hole"), 1 use of "damn", 1 use of "bastard", and 1 use of "Jesus".

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • A character sometimes smokes cigarettes.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Some rather intense moments throughout, like the thumb-breaking scene and others in the hospital.
  • People are threatened with knives and guns.

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Violence & Gore

  • A helicopter shoots at a man on a bridge and injures him (mildly bloody), and another man tackles him and shields him. The man shoots at the copter, and falls over the side and into the water.

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