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Certification
| MPAA | Rated R for strong war violence, some brutality and language |
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Sex & Nudity
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- Shows a bare chested woman whose breasts have been cut off during a village raid.
- A brief partially exposed breast quickly seen during an attempted rape by a Nigerian militia member is the only real nudity in this movie.
- Monica Belluci's top gets looser and looser throughout the movie, exposing more and more cleavage as it goes along.
- A woman's breasts are briefly exposed while a man is trying to rape her. (A soldier pulls the man off and kills him)
Violence & Gore
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- Shows a bare chested woman whose breasts have been cut off during a village raid.
- The film starts with real life news reel footage of the war in Nigeria, someone is seen getting shot during this footage.
- During scenes set inside a Nigerian hospital a patient is seen without a lower leg and a bloody bandage wrapped around the wound.
- Several more injured patients are seen as well as a sequence set inside the operating theatre where the doctors have blood stains on their clothes.
- The a soldier slits a rebel soldiers throat with an army knife, and then wipes the blood from the blade on his thigh.
- A priest is made to kneel on the floor by rebel soldiers, one holds a machete high in the air and then brings it down. Although it is not seen the sequence implies that the priest was decapitated.
- Several Nigerian villagers are seen to be shot by rebel soldiers.
- Several rebel soldiers are shot by an American sniper.
- A pile of Nigerian villagers bodies are seen.
- The American special-ops team raid the village and kill all the rebel soldiers including: breaking ones neck, and one is shot in the shoulder and then stabbed in the stomach.
- A soldier has his arm cut by a rebel soldier with a machete.
- A man is shot trying to escape through the jungle, he is then seen lying on the ground dying with blood on his chest and neck.
- A member of the American special-ops team is shot in the shoulder by an enemy sniper.
- A big gun battle erupts, many explosions happen and many rebel soldiers are shot although none graphically.
- One of the American special-ops team is shot in the stomach and a large wound gushing blood is breifly shown.
- Lieutenant Waters is shot in the leg.
- American fighter planes drop bombs on the rebel soldier causing large explosions the soldiers are seen and heard screaming as the bombs land.
Profanity
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- 'F*ck' is said 24 times, including three paired with 'mother'.
- 'D*mn' is said ten times, including nine paired with 'God'.
- 'Sh*t' is said four times.
- 'H*ll' is said twice.
- 'B*tch' is said twice.
- 'B*stard' is said twice.
- '*ss' is said once.
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
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- A rebel soldier smokes a cigarette in a village briefly.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
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- A mild jump-scare.
- A soldier explains to a woman that her and her colleagues will be killed by approaching fighters if they do not leave.
- For a large portion of the movie, main characters are being tracked by soldiers who will likely kill them.
- The many deaths and the violence throughout are very intense.
- The intentional killing of innocent villagers by soldiers is very disturbing.
- Tears of the Sun deals with the civil war in Nigeria and features scenes of ethnic cleansing, war atrocities, and a brief execution. Not for the faint of heart.
Spoilers
Violence & Gore
- An American special-ops team member and a Nigerian refugee try to escape rebel soldiers but are outnumbered and shot dead.
- The surviving special-ops team members all have extensive injuries and bloody facial wounds as they take off to safety.
