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(2007)

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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for strong graphic violence, brutality, terror and language
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • The rape scene is not graphic at all and is only attempted
  • One attempted rape but it is stopped
  • The aforementioned sexual assault is equally at home in this section, as is the croc's munching of the rapist.
  • Steven ponders whether his boss is sleeping with Aviva. He also makes crass jokes.
  • Characters discuss a man's closet homosexuality.
  • There's a condom metaphor, as well as a separate reference to the crocodile having an erection.
  • Of graver note, a soldier prepares to rape Aviva, ripping open her blouse and exposing her bra just before the monster enters the tent and tears him to piecesa disturbing juxtaposition of sexuality and violence.

Violence & Gore

  • Worms and maggots are seen crawling through corpses disturbing gory and gross
  • Several shooting scenes and gun weapons
  • The film opens with the discovery of rotting, wormy corpses in a mass grave. Those victims were reportedly shot at close range, a fate that befalls a handful of other people later in the film.
  • A character's head and torso show up among the bones and other remains piled in the beast's lair.
  • Huge eruptions of blood in the river often symbolize croc attacks.
  • A South African girl gets devoured in a swift attack.
  • After getting shot, a man decides he's going to die anyway, so he puts himself on the menu in hopes of taking Gustav with him by way of a hand grenade.
  • Others sure to turn up during a thorough flossing include a humanitarian worker, a pair of fishermen and the diabolical warlord himself.
  • When the predator buries its snout into the back half of a Range Rover, Tim stabs at it in self-defense.
  • The severed limbs of freshly eaten prey pop up.
  • Warring Africans open fire on one another, with a handful of fatalities.
  • Tim and a brutal rebel have a knock-down, drag-out fight before Aviva finds a gun and literally blows the guy's head off.
  • Tim knifes one bad guy and gets shot by another.
  • There's a flip reference to O.J. Simpson killing "that white woman."

Profanity

  • A man says something about the crocodile and another man responds "motherf------ bullet proof." This is easy to hear and obvious what the man has said
  • Nearly 20 F-Words, (some with "mother") more than a dozen s-words and an obscene gesture are joined by an assortment of low-grade swear words.
  • Jesus' name is misused.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Apparently, beer is the beverage of choice while staking out a hungry reptile.
  • A shaman smokes a ceremonial pipe, as does Steven.
  • The warlord puffs a cigar.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Some of the scenes are intense and hard to watch.

Spoilers

The Parents Guide items below may give away important plot points.

Violence & Gore

  • The rapist is bitten in the back by croc, toms of blood come out of his mouth, then the croc throws him aside splattering more blood onto aviga.
  • The rapist is bitten in the back by croc causing tons of blood to erupt from his mouth then croc throws him aside splattering blood onto Aviva very gory
  • A man decapitates the shaman with a machete may be disturbing to some
  • A man has his head crushed like a watermelon in beetween a crocodile's jaws blood spurts
  • A man goes flying off a truck and hits a tree and dies
  • A few offscreen kills and a few shootings too
  • The intro is also gory.
  • A woman is dragged through the mud and then underwater and supposedly killed by Gustave. Her fleshy, gory headless corpse then rises to the top of the water. This may be intense for some viewers.
  • Many people are shot and killed with some blood shown (but is dark so hard to see) what makes it even more disturbing is that the man who is shooting them is laughing while doing this
  • One dead guy falls out of a tree
  • Two young women are shot in the head (one with a bloody bullet hole seen) (but only briefly but still noticeable) and the other is shot offscreen with a gunshot sound heard and is most likely killed in the same way.
  • A man is killed by Gustave in the water with blood erupting in the water. This occurs offscreen but a lot (as in a lot) of blood is seen in the water. The man in the boat is then killed offscreen. No blood or gore
  • A man is shot splattering blood onto another man
  • Very gory and brutal deaths from the crocodile. A man is torn in half by the crocodile, you see his spine stick out. His head then explodes from the jaws of the crocodile. It's probably the most brutal death in the entire film.
  • One poor guy gets run down by a truck before a rebel climbs out and puts him out of his misery by riddling his body with machine gun bullets. Very bloody. The warlord lops off a the shaman's head with a machete.
  • A young man is shot, and his assailant tries to finish him off by drowning him.

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