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Parents Guide for
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Sex & Nudity

None, but it is shown that the main character has some affection towards a new woman member in the group.

Violence & Gore

Non stop graphic and bloody violence/gore including gunshots, sniping, dismemberment, slicing, and executions.

There is a scene where a war veteran describes how his soldiers were shot and his adopted dog in the war in Iraq.

Most characters are killed long range with machine guns, but a few are killed close range execution style

There are scenes where old/young men are brought to dig up plutonium lost and hidden from the cold war, when the men are done removing all the plutonium from the large containers the size of a room, he lets the cap fall on the capsule, leading to their deaths.

A militia with a tank come to try and wipe out the team, eventually everyone on the militia was killed.

There is a torturous like scene of a man having bruises and being cut with a amazingly sharp knife, they scrape it against his chest and they threaten to kill him.

A knife is kicked into a man's heart.

Men are killed instantly with throwing knives, bullets, and beat downs.

One scene there is one man left and the team all at once shoot him. Very bloody. All it shows is his bullet entry wounds and blood resulting from the bullets. He eventually falls over.

Two men fight one on one, where one gets the upper hand, hits him with chains and wraps them around the man with the lower hand and pulls him towards him and drives the knife into his chest/stomach area.

One scene at the end of the film contains a character's head held in a bag, although the head itself is not seen, blood dripping from the bag is shown. And you can hear the body parts in the bag.

Men getting shot is pretty much through this entire movie.

There are many guns used against the protagonists and the antagonist/and his men.

A woman pulls out a set of thin knives to torture a man. Actual torture is not seen, but screams and the sounds of flesh being cut is clearly heard

A man is decapitated and torn apart after being pushed into a helicopter blade.

Profanity

Few minor words such as damn and hell

10 uses of "s**t",1 use of Bastard, 1 use of Ass, 1 use of Piss

A few jokes that one of the characters is gay, but he is not and is done in humor.

Smoking is done by the main character and drinking is done by almost everyone in the group at a bar.

A few characters are killed at close range execution style

There are two scenes of characters getting stabbed with a knife, which contain much blood and gore.

One scene at the end of the film contains a character's head held in a bag, although the head itself is not seen, blood dripping from the bag is shown. And you can hear the body parts in the bag.

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Rated R for strong bloody violence throughout

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