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Parents Guide for
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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

In the beginning of the film, a man tries to molest an 11 year old girl.

There is a short sex scene where a man has sex with a woman where we see her breasts for about 5 seconds as she straddles him.

The (now adult) 11 year old girl from the opening dances provocatively on stage in a cowgirl outfit as a non-nude exotic dancer.

She also tries to seduce a middle aged man, much to his dismay (in the Director's Cut, he states he is old enough to be her grandfather).

There is also a completely naked woman sitting in a room with her arms around her legs. You can see her butt for about 2 seconds. (Not graphic).

A woman walks around topless for about 3-4 seconds. (No more nudity in the movie).

Many hookers are seen.

Violence & Gore

An assassin shoots a woman in the chest as he holds her. (No blood).

Hartigan knocks out Bob (his partner) with a punch to the face. Bob's glasses are broken. (Small amount of blood).

Hartigan knocks out two of Roark's thugs with a lead pipe. (No blood).

Roark Jr. shoots Hartigan in the shoulder. A hole is shown in his coat. (Some white blood).

Hartigan shoots off a man's ear and right hand, and then shoots him in the groin. He prepares to finish him off, but another man fires several shots into his back, knocking him down. (Some white blood during all of this)

Marv awakens to find a hooker named Goldie dead in his bed. He has no clue how she died, as there are no markings of any kind on her.

Marv kicks open his door, knocking down several police officers stationed outside.

He punches one in the face and breaks his visor.

As he flees, they shoot at him but miss.

He later beats up a pair of officers in a car and throws them out, then later throws himself through the windshield of a squad car and kicks both men out. He has several bloody cuts on his face from the glass.

A bouncer hits a bar patron's head off a door repeatedly, then throws him out into the alley.

Marv pushes his fingers into the bouncer's eyes as the man screams in pain and throws him into a seat.

Marv beats up two hitmen a bit, then shoots one in the chest and smashes the other's face into a brick wall.

He slaps the shot one in the face and shoots him in the groin,(off-screen).

After the hitman is interrogated, Marv shoots him in the head (off-screen). It is unclear if the other survives.(No blood in the whole scene).

Marv interrogates a man by dunking his head in a toilet repeatedly.

Later, he drags one's face on a road while driving at high speeds. (Half-played for comedy, no blood or gore).

He later reveals he killed both. (No blood or gore is seen).

Marv shoots a priest in the head. (A bullet wound and blood spary are seen).

Wendy hits Marv with her car a few times and shoots at him, but he escapes virtually unscathed.

Marv hits Kevin's wolf, knocking it out when it tries to attack him. (No blood).

When Marv finds human bones, Kevin sneaks up behind him and kicks Marv a few times, followed by scratching Marv's arm and face. (No blood can be seen).

As Marv is blinded, Kevin picks up a sledgehammer and knocks him out with it. (Some mild blood).

Marv wakes up in a basement with a bloody face and sees five heads of women mounted on the wall. He finds Lucille and sees that she is missing a hand. She graphically describes to him how Kevin ate it and "made her watch." (Her arm where it's missing a hand is seen but no blood).

Lucille hits Marv in the head with a rock and knocks him out to prevent him from causing any more harm to himself or anyone alse. (A little blood).

When she tells a police captain this, he guns her down with a submachine gun, shooting her dead body some more. (Some blood but it's mostly done for shock value).

Enraged, Marv takes a hatchet and takes out a few policemen with it, bringing it up through one's groin and slicing the others. (Blood is seen).

He also cuts one's throat. (Alot of blood is seen).

The captain tries to shoot Marv, but realizes he is out of ammo. Marv just looks at him with a maniacal smile and slowly advances toward the man, hatchet in hand. The camera cuts to a new scene, but Marv says how he "took his time and showed him pieces of himself" for what he did to Lucille.

Wendy knocks Marv out and captures him, then interrogates him by pistol whipping him across the face maybe a dozen times. She lets him go. (He has bruises and is shown with some red blood on his face).

Marv tosses a gas can through a farmhouse window, which explodes. Kevin jumps out just before this happens.

Kevin finds Marv and kicks and cuts him a bit leaving Marv with a few scratches. (Some red blood on Marv's face).

Marv handcuffs himself to Kevin and punches the him in the face knocking him out with one punch. (A little red blood is seen spraying out of his mouth).

Marv tells Kevin of how he cut off his limbs with a hacksaw and then had to use rubber tubing as tourniquets to keep him alive.

Kevin is shown with a haunting smile and some red blood on his face

When the camera pans out Kevin's limbless areas are shown graphically; Kevin's wolf shows up and slowly proceeds to eat him.

The camera goes negative and the wolf is seen ripping off white flesh from Kevin's legs and chewing it. (No blood is seen but the skin is).

Marv is next seen holding a hacksaw in one hand and Kevin's decapitated head in the other, narrarating how the wolf slowly ate him and how Kevin "never screamed" and "didn't stop smiling", even when Marv cut his head off. (The severed head is seen but with no blood surprisingly).

Marv breaks the necks of two of Cardinal Roark's guards, then interrogates the man himself.

At one point, Marv pulls out Kevin's head and sets it near Roark.

Marv kills Roark in such a way that blood ends up all over his face (it isn't exactly known how he does this).

Roark's guards shoot Marv on the spot, but he survives and is shown being operated on in a hospital. (Some blood).

While being interrogated by police, a district attroney threatens to kill Marv's mother, at which point Marv breaks the man's hand in four places, shown from a distance.

A man electrocuted, but somehow survives and spits out a lot of blood. The police shock him again and he dies.

Jack Rafferty (a.k.a. "Jackie Boy") slaps Shellie across the face and she falls to the floor, shown from a shadow in the room. (Blood is seen on her face).

Dwight sneaks up behind Jack and holds a shaving razor to his face and threatens him.

Dwight dunks Jack's head in the unflushed toilet and nearly drowns him in his own urine. (Half-played for comedy and half-played for drama).

When Dwight leaves, Jack gets up and spits out a lot of toilet water.

Jack threatens Becky with a gun, but Miho throws a shuriken at his hand and severs it. (Alot of white blood spurts).

She jumps on the roof of Jack's car and stabs two of Jack's friends with duel swords though the heads. (Alot of white blood).

The other man in the back is stabbed downwards through the eye. (Some white blood is seen).

As the last man crawls out, she cuts his head off. (Alot of white blood gushes).

Jack pries his severed hand off his gun with his mouth and tries to shoot Miho with it, but he slips on his own hand and lands on Miho's shuriken. It sticks out of his butt as he grabs his severed hand. (No blood, half-played for comedy).

He prepares to shoot Dwight, but Miho blocks the barrel of his gun and it backfires, shooting the slide into his forehead and nearly killing him. He sits against a dumpster as Miho half-cuts his head off. (Not shown but alot of red blood gets on her face).

Dwight slaps Gail pretty hard and is nearly shot by the Old Town Girls, but Gail forgives him and they kiss. (No blood).

Dwight holds up a body to Miho and she severs the legs. (Severed legs and lots of white blood is seen)

They throw the legs and other body parts with the rest of the bodies into the trunk of the car. (Severed body parts and white blood is seen).

Dwight drives with Jack's body up front, whom he imagines is still alive with a large slice in his throat and the gun slide still in his head. (White blood is seen from the head wound and the slice is shown rather graphically with some white blood).

Dwight pushes the car full of bodies towards the tar pits, but is shot through the chest. When mercenaries search his body, they realize the bullet fired at him was stopped by Rafferty's police badge. (No blood).

Gail is interrogated by Manute, who holds her face roughly and slaps her extremely hard when she bites a piece of skin off from Becky's neck for her betrayal to the Old Town Girls. (Alot of red blood and the piece of skin from Becky's neck is seen graphically as Gail spits it out).

Dwight gets up and shoots one of the men through the head and another just below the shoulder, killing them both.

Another pair of men try to gun Dwight down, but he shoots one in the head and the bullet kills the second man behind him.

A grenade lands near Dwight and explodes. He is thrown off his feet and falls into the tar pit where he slowly starts to drown until Miho intervenes and saves him.

When they reach the surface, Dwight sees two bodies with an arrow through in each of their heads.

He finds a man alive and hanging upside down from a tree. Dwight stabs him through the chest with a knife to interrogate him. (Very little blood if any during the whole scene).

A gunfight takes place between the mercenaries and Old Town Girls, where all but one of the mercs are killed in addition to an Old Town Girl.

A grenade is thrown at Miho, but she jumps out of the way.

Dwight pulls out two pistols, jumps down a sewer, and fires all the down. When he lands, he is nearly killed by an explosion and is thrown into a corner by the blast.

A merc holding Rafferty's head and a detonator threatens to kill Dwight, but Miho sneaks up behind him and stabs him through the back with her sword. (The stabbing is seen with some white blood but not the twisting).

A man is shot through the chest with an arrow and a note attached to it. (This is played for comedy, no blood).

While the rest of the men go to investigate, the man is shot in the head with another arrow, looks up, and falls down. (Also played for comedy with only a little blood).

Manute and his men are given Rafferty's head, but Dwight blows it up with an explosion Rafferty's mouth. The head is blown to pieces and several of Manute's men are thrown off their feet.

When they get up, they realize they are surrounded by about a dozen hookers and are all brutally gunned down in slow motion. Dwight and Gail join in.

They are all shot through the chest without blood except for Becky, who is hit in the arm and crawls away. (Some red blood sprays).

Hartigan is beaten while tied to a chair. (Lots of red blood is seen).

While in prison, Roark, Jr. punches Hartigan in the face and the latter falls unconscious. (No blood).

When he wakes up, Roark is gone and has left an envelope containing the severed index finger of a young girl (Hartigan thinks it belongs to Nancy but it actually belongs to an unknown victim). (We see the finger it has some red blood on the end where it had been severed).

Roark, Jr. fires at Hartigan and Nancy during a car chase and empties two entire clips of ammo for his pistol, not hitting either of them once. Hartigan fires a single shot into Roark's neck,he loses control of the car. (Lots of orange blood is seen spraying).

Hartigan goes back to make sure Roark is truly dead, but only finds his totaled car and orange blood on the ground.

While in the shower, Hartigan is punched by Roark Jr. and is knocked out.

When he wakes up, he sees Roark injecting fluid from a syringe into Nancy's neck. Hartigan is standing atop a wooden table with a noose tied around his neck hung by the ceiling.

As Roark leaves with Nancy, he kicks the table and Hartigan begins to choke to death.

He nearly dies, but swings his body backwards to break a glass window and use a shard to free himself.

When two of Roark's men come to investigate, Hartigan knocks the first out and interrogates the second by threatening to cut his head off on the broken window. The man tells Hartigan what he needs to know and it is implied he is let go.

While trying to find Nancy, Hartigan coughs up red blood when his heart acts up.

Hartigan cuts the throat of a guard and lets his body drop to the ground. (No blood surprisingly).

Before he can reach the barn where Nancy is being whipped, Hartigan is shot in the shoulder. (Some white blood is seen spraying out).

Two guards run over to Hartigan, but he rolls over and kills them with a shot through the helmet visor each. (No blood).

Roark, Jr. is about to stab Hartigan (whom he thinks has suffered a heart attack) then Hartigan sticks a knife into Roark's chest. (No blood).

He falls backward and Hartigan rips out his genitals and throws them aside. (The genitals are kind of seen but there's alot of orange blood).

He starts punching Roark in the face until there is literally nothing left except for orange blood and chunks of bone left on the floor

Hartigan shoots himself in the head in order to keep Nancy safe. This is shown from a distance and in black and white. (Some white blood is seen).

Despite there being a incredible amount of violence and gore in this movie in only two scenes is it realistic the rest of it is very stylized and over the top with the amount of blood.

Profanity

Mild dialogue such as "son of a bitch" and "bastard" are used occasionally.

"Shit" is used less than 5 times.

Marv says Lucille is "a dike".

Most of the characters are either seen smoking and drinking.

Jack Rafferty recklessly drives drunk.

Scenes take place in a bar.

Marv and Hartigan have heart conditions and take pills in a very irresponsible way and abuse them.

A man is slowly eaten by a dog while he stares eerily at Marv. Marv then decapitates him with a hand saw and his bloody stump of a head is shown, still staring.

A girl is slapped around by her ex-boyfriend (domestic violence).

While a man is urinating, another man sneaks up behind him with a razor and drives the man's head into the toilet and almost drowns him in his own urine.

Two men are in a car, one is dead and one is very tired... the one who is tired imagines the dead man coming back to life in the car. The dead man is graphically shown smoking a cigarette through a deep slit in his throat

A scene in a dungeon-like basement shows some heads of dead women.

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Rated R for sustained strong stylized violence, nudity and sexual content including dialogue
Certification:
Canada:16+ (Quebec) / Canada:18A (British Columbia/Ontario) / Czech Republic:15 / Denmark:15 / Germany:18 / Hong Kong:III / Ireland:18 / Israel:18 / Japan:R-15 / Malaysia:(Banned) / Netherlands:16 / Philippines:R-13 (cut) / South Korea:18 / Spain:18 / Switzerland:16 (canton of Geneva) / Switzerland:16 (canton of Vaud) / UK:18 / Finland:K-15 (re-rating) / Norway:15 / Sweden:15 / Mexico:C / Poland:18 / Brazil:16 / Singapore:R21 (director's cut) / Finland:K-18 (original rating) / Argentina:18 / Chile:18 / New Zealand:R18 / Peru:18 (original rating) / Peru:14 (re-rating) / France:16 / France:12 (cut) / Colombia:18 / Austria:16 / Switzerland:18 (canton of Basel-Stadt) / Canada:R (Alberta/Manitoba) / Taiwan:R-12 / Canada:18 (Nova Scotia) (original rating) / Canada:R (Nova Scotia) (re-rating) / Venezuela:PG-13 / USA:Unrated (unrated extended edition) / Australia:MA / South Africa:16 / Hungary:18 / New Zealand:R16 (TV rating) / USA:R (certificate #41611) / Iceland:16 / Italy:T / Portugal:M/16 (Qualidade) / Argentina:16 (DVD rating) / Chile:14 (DVD rating) / Romania:I.C.-14 / Iran:(Banned)

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