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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for violence and language
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • A secret service agent approaches a young child's parents to discuss the child's school bus drivers inappropriate sexual nature towards him. However nothing is shown to suggest this, only the brief conversation.
  • One or two small lip kisses. A man kisses a woman on the cheek.

Violence & Gore

  • There is a 8 minute scene at the beginning of the movie, where several people are shot including a young man.
  • A teenager is shot.
  • There's a brutal fight on a subway between two men.
  • A man gets run over by a train. Nothing is shown.
  • A man gets shot on public by somebody unknown.
  • Several shoot outs.
  • A man's face is badly ripped apart by flying glass. This may be disturbing to some.

Profanity

  • The F-word is used 12 times, once in conjunction with 'mother'. Thereafter there are infrequent mentions of shit, bitch, ass, hell, God, crap, Christ, balls, and damn.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • The main character drinks from a few bottles of wine to test them, and is seen earlier in one scene drinking a half pint of beer at a bar.
  • The main character takes prescribed medicine in the form of pills, in which he later disregards them by emptying the entire container onto the ground.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The ending scenes may be intense to some.
  • A boy slowly walks on the edge of a high building.
  • In some scenes, a boy violently responds by screaming whenever anybody aggressively touches him.

Spoilers

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Violence & Gore

  • Simon's parents are brutally murdered by an assassin. It is quite disturbing, his father is shot in the head with graphic results and his mother shot in the back.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • A boy's parents are shot.

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