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Unlike the MPAA we do not assign one inscrutable rating based on age, but 3 objective ratings for SEX/NUDITY, VIOLENCE/GORE and PROFANITY on a scale of 0 to 10, from lowest to highest, depending on quantity and context. |
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A tale of cops and murder in 1950's Los Angeles.
SEX/NUDITY 5 - A woman's bare breasts are seen in a few scenes (in one a
woman is bound). Photos of scantily-clad women -- some in torture-type situations. Kissing
(once in bed obviously after sex and in a couple of scenes as foreplay). Sexual innuendo
(including rape and homosexual references).
VIOLENCE/GORE 7 - A man beats up a woman, and a man is beaten up by a man.
Police officers beat up prisoners/suspects in some scenes. There's shoving, throwing
people around, punching etc., with a bit of blood and sometimes the victims are bound and
sometimes you can hear bones crunching. A great deal of blood trails and splatters on
walls and floors and we see corpses after a mass murder. A police officer plays Russian
roulette with a gun placed in a suspect's mouth. A woman's face is beaten and bruised
leaving blood on her pillow. A man is shot with blood coming out of his shirt. A shootout
shows blood on faces and chests and blood splatters onto a man's face. A man is seen with
his throat slit and blood around his throat and head. A man is smothered to death. A
corpse is seen with its head caved in due to a beating. A man's head is beaten into a
commode and he is hung out a window. We see wrists slit with blood and broken fingers. A
major shootout with many deaths. A knife stab in the leg. A man is shot in the back.
Threatening with guns.
PROFANITY 6 - About 24 F-words, some racial slurs, some scatological
references and anatomical references, many mild obscenities. [profanity glossary]
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Corruption, celebrity, the 1950's, law enforcement
investigation and murder.
MESSAGE - The police can be as corrupt as criminals.
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Special Keywords: S5 - V7 - P6 - MPAAR |
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A CAVEAT: We've gone through several editorial changes since we started covering films in 1992 and some of our early standards were not as stringent as they are now. We therefore need to revisit many older reviews, especially those written prior to 1998 or so; please keep this in mind if you're consulting a review from that period. While we plan to revisit and correct older reviews our resources are limited and it is a slow, time-consuming process. |
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