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(2001)

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Certification

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

Sex & Nudity

  • Oral sex is forcefully performed on a man by a woman while he's physically restrained. Next, he is held at gunpoint and has to do a very complicated task and the woman doesn't stop. His facial expression is shown during the act, but nothing explicit is shown but the back of the woman's head.
  • As a woman gets undressed, we see her in a very small and low-cut bra (that shows cleavage) and an extremely skimpy, string-bikini type panties (that show a great deal of skin). The main character walks in and sees her this way and another man then walks in and sees the two of them together (but nothing sexual is occurring).
  • Some women at a party invite Stanley to go swimming with them. When he says that he doesn't have a suit, they tell him he doesn't need one. We then see them walking down into the pool topless (we see them from behind) and see them in varying bikini/thong bottoms (one that shows a great deal of one woman's rear end) with one or more of the sides of their bare breasts partially showing.
  • A woman is shown wearing a very slinky, tight mini skirt outfit and she bares lots of thigh which another character admires, especially when she wiggles her hips such as when we see our man Hugh Jackman hitting golf balls off the top of his trailer, seemingly wearing just a towel. Halle Berry then shows up and both he and the camera focus in close on her rear end as she bends over in her short and tight-fitting dress. Later, she tells him that she's not there to "suck your d*ck."
  • Women are seen wearing tight fitting, skin exposing outfits (we see thighs, backs, cleavage and midriffs) throughout the movie.
  • A woman gives a man a big kiss, a woman kisses another man, and another kisses a man (the man doesn't kiss her back) and shares the drink she has in her mouth with him.
  • A brief nightclub scene shows men and women dancing provocatively with skimpy clothing.
  • A man reminds his ex-wife that her new husband is a "porn king" (of "Backdoor Films") and the woman then comments on Stanley probably not wanting Holly to be the "fluffer" in her daddy's videos. We later hear that Stanley's ex-wife is an actress in those films (and one government agent waves a videotape as if it's one of them, but we don't know if that's true).
  • A woman purposefully runs her hand along the inside of a hacker's (clothed) upper thigh as she comes on to him. As she walks out, she asks if he's surprised that a girl with in IQ over seventy can "give you a hard on?"
  • Halle Berry's bare breasts are clearly shown for a prolonged amount of time while she is sunbathing.

Violence & Gore

  • A man breaks in to an interrogation room to kill someone and prepares a silencer-equipped gun and then shoots two men through a two-way mirror (one in the head, the other in the chest). First off its like the only scenes with blood, not too violent but pretty graphic.
  • Various military style vehicles drive through a bank's plate glass windows and smash some of the furniture inside. One of the thugs then hits a man with a machine gun that he then fires into the ceiling as a warning. When the manager won't give up his key, a man has one of his men drive the man backwards, nearly into a wall after that man denies that he knows the location to a key.
  • We see the charred and mangled remains of a body in a morgue (the camera lingers on it). Another scene where a man tries to get wine and he suddenly sees a frozen corpse and walks away in panic
  • There's a scene where a character describes what he thinks should have happened at the end of "Dog Day Afternoon": he describes hostages being murdered in graphic detail where blood splats on the window, he leaves with guns pointed everywhere and a lot of police officers
  • A bus is picked up off the road by a helicopter and flown through a city hitting buildings and breaking glass; it dangles from two cables and a man falls from the exit and holds on a hostage they both fall strapped in a radio frequented collar which activates the bomb causing them to both explode
  • A woman is held and a few henchmen wrap ropes around her neck and it is strapped to a pully, they lift her up and she chokes many times for air about to die, she gets lowered down and shot in the chest then dies.
  • A man has a tail, some cars chase and a man shoots at both sides shooting the tailers and the car explodes, another car is still there he gets down and shoots them many times killing and injuring others. The chase continues and the car results in exploding, the man opens the car door to find a man's dead body of the crash.
  • A bus crashes at an office shattering windows while others flee in panic, A man leaves a bus of hostages shoots a rocket launcher at a departing helicopter and it explodes, others try to restrain the rocket man
  • A man enters his home to find his daughter to get kidnapped clothes and a pair of glasses on the floor, a man's naked corpse with blood staining on the carpet and his wife on the bed dead (Some blood is shown). He then finds her and he pushes one man and then tackles another to allow his daughter to escape. He then struggles with Marco who punches him in the gut several times and the kidnapper holds his gun to his face.
  • A man is shot in the chest and falls in a river, another scene a car then explodes.
  • One man is pinned between the car and a wall they go to the bank and terrorize others, a man is asked for a key he lies so the car rams even more and the man gives him the key in fear.
  • Stanley elbows an agent in the nose, drives his car backwards into a government car (smashing the door) and then struggles with several men before heading off on foot and being chased by those men. They eventually catch him (after careening out of control down a long and steep hill), with one firing a warning shot into the air and another throwing Stanley back against a car. One then pushes him back down against the car when he stands up.
  • A woman fitted with a bomb, in the company of two police officers, blows up and the blast travels through neighboring buildings, breaking glass, flipping cars, and throwing people through the air. We revisit this scene later (we see the explosion again) with more detail about what follows.

Profanity

  • 28 "f" words, 21 "s" words, 3 slang terms using male genitals ("d*ck" and "c*ck"), 9 hells, 7 asses (1 used with "hole"), 3 S.O.B.s, 1 damn, 2 uses each of "G-damn" and "Jesus" and 1 use each of "Jesus Christ," "Oh God" and "Oh Jesus" as exclamations.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • A man lights and smokes a cigar.
  • Several scenes in clubs where people are drinking.
  • Many characters smoke throughout the film including the protagonist.
  • Stan drinks wine during a montage and we then see that he's emptied the bottle. He then goes looking for more in Gabriel's wine rack.
  • Many cigars are smoked, and people drink often.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • A woman is tortured by dangling from the neck in order for a man to start hacking into the computer.
  • A character is held at gunpoint.
  • MA15+, Action violence, Language, Some Nudity and sexual content.
  • Hostage situations.

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Violence & Gore

  • A car speeds through traffic, running red lights, sending cars spinning, crashing and exploding, and nearly hitting trucks while a man shoots at (there's a lot of reciprocal gunfire) the cars in pursuit.
  • A yacht explodes and we hear a report of a man having been killed in the explosion.
  • A man tosses a woman out of his house and she falls to the ground.
  • A man is threatened with a gun several times and a woman's head is pulled back by her hair.

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