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Since the beliefs that parents want to instill in their children can vary greatly, we ask that, instead of adding your personal opinions about what is right or wrong in a film, you use this feature to help parents make informed viewing decisions by describing the facts of relevant scenes in the title for each one of the different categories: Sex and Nudity, Violence and Gore, Profanity, Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking, and Frightening/Intense Scenes.
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Sex & Nudity

Shaw then passes by and uses a miniature surveillance camera to get a better look at what's occurring and we briefly see one of the women at the man's crotch but can't see any complete details. Once the official realizes he's being taped, however, he shoos them away and we then see him zipping up his pants. Julia shows some cleavage. Hanging from the rearview mirror of a car Shaw's just stolen/borrowed is a card showing a topless woman and her bare breasts (we see this several times).

Thinking she's bugged with a tracking device, Shaw tells Julia to remove all of her clothes. She reluctantly complies and we then see her sitting in the passenger seat of a car without any (she covers her bare breasts with her arms/hands, but we briefly see part of the side of her bare breast). Shaw then goes inside where he sees topless waitresses as well as various women sitting on Asian businessmen's laps, with many of the women being topless or removing their tops to display their bare breasts. Other topless women in thong-like bottoms sensuously dance for the men's viewing pleasure. Later, Shaw passes by a man who appears to be recording/dubbing pornographic videotapes (we see some related images on his small video monitors that show movement - but nothing graphically explicit -- and hear sexually related sounds).

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Violence & Gore

Profanity

At least 12 "f" words (1 used with "mother"), 8 "s" words (1 written in English subtitles), 1 slang term using male genitals ("c*cks*cking"), 9 asses (6 used with "hole" and 1 written in English subtitles), 1 damn, 1 hell, 1 S.O.B., 4 uses of "G-damn," 2 uses each of "Jesus" and "Jesus Christ" and 1 use of "Oh God" as exclamations.

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Some people, including Shaw, have champagne at a New Year's Eve party. People have wine and/or champagne at a reception. We see a truck driver snorting some cocaine while driving. Some men in a club drink.

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For viewers who are afraid/anxious of heights, scenes where Shaw is on the ledge of a high rise building and then rapidly floats/falls toward the street in a ripped parachute might be suspenseful. We see many dead bodies (some of which are bloody and in the beginning stages of decomposition) piled upon one another in recently opened, large metal crate (they were murdered). After an assassin shoots Wu, Shaw chases him through various rooms, hallways and buildings, occasionally dodging bullets and/or cautiously hunting for him. Shaw fights with men in an out of control truck. Shackled, he eventually gets out of the truck and jumps onto the side of an adjacent and larger truck, from which he dangles just above the passing street below him. The passenger of the first truck then tries squashing Shaw between the trucks as they drive down a road. Realizing she's been set up, Julia slowly makes her way through a nearly empty hospital, looking for the responsible party. Alone in a government building at night (during a thunderstorm no less) and knowing that she's in danger, Julia tries to leave but realizes someone's watching her. She then ducks into a bathroom to avoid someone she sees approaching her. Later, she slowly tries to sneak out.

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Rated R for strong violence, some sexuality, language and brief drug content
Certification:
Malaysia:18PL (uncut version) / Malaysia:U (cut version) / Portugal:M/16 / South Korea:15 (video rating) (cut) / South Korea:18 (original rating) / Netherlands:12 (TV rating) / Netherlands:16 / Finland:K-15 / Argentina:13 / Australia:MA / Canada:14A / Chile:14 / Denmark:15 / France:U / Germany:18 (bw) / New Zealand:R18 / Norway:15 / Peru:14 / Spain:18 / Sweden:15 / Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) / Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud) / UK:18 / USA:R / Iceland:16 / Philippines:PG-13

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