Parents Guide for
16 Blocks (2006)

SEX/NUDITY 0 - None.

VIOLENCE/GORE 5 - A man points a gun at a car window (presumably to shoot the man sitting inside the car), and a police detective standing across the street shoots the gunman who falls head first through the car window. A police detective is shot and falls to the floor (we do not know if the wound is fatal). A police detective shoots another police detective in the leg (we see the bloody wound). A police detective and a man are shot at repeatedly, and they close a door on a detective's arm and shoot him in the leg. A police detective is shot in the hand (we see the bloody wound). Two police detectives shoot back and forth at each other and one threatens to kill the other. A man has a gunshot wound on his side and we see a lot of blood on his shirt (he appears to becoming weak). Several armed police officers break a door down and find several dead men in an apartment (the dead men have what appear to be bullet wounds and we see blood on the wounds). A police detective washes the blood of a gunshot wound on his hand. A police detective backs a car up and hits a gunman shooting at him, and he races away in the car. A police detective and another man are shot at as they run along a busy street, and people around them scream and run. A city bus drives recklessly through busy streets, many passengers onboard are thrown out of their seats, and some scream and appear frightened when they realize a man has a gun. A police detective enters an apartment with his gun drawn, and another police detective forces him to drop his weapon and he handcuffs him to a pole. A man holds a gun to the throat of a police detective. A police detective holds a gun on three other detectives as he backs out of a bar. Police detectives force a man to hold a gun and fire it. Several armed police officers force their way into an apartment and wave their guns around, and a woman inside screams in fear. A city bus is driven through streets and alleys crashing into many vehicles and other obstructions until it becomes wedged between two buildings; police officers break the windows and throw in gas canisters that explode and emit a gas. Police detectives shoot out the tires of a moving city bus full of passengers, and the bus crashes into cars and through a construction fence. A man talks about another man having to have his leg cut off at the knee because of an infection. We hear about a man dying from a heart attack when a police detective put a gun in his mouth. A police detective is told to, "take him out." A man and a police detective argue. A man records his last will and testament preparing to be killed in a police standoff. Hostages scramble off a bus with their hands up. A police detective puts handcuffs on a prisoner. We see a poster of a baby in a diaper playing with a handgun.

PROFANITY 5 - 3 F-words, 18 scatological terms, 2 anatomical terms, 11 mild obscenities, 3 religious profanities, 1 religious exclamation.

SUBSTANCE USE - There are drugs on a table at a crime scene. A man drinks a lot of alcohol in many scenes (he is an alcoholic).

The action scenes are very intense.