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.
Bruce Willis breezes into a Western town and plays two
gangs off each other.
SEX/NUDITY 4 - Sexual innuendo, kissing; a woman wears a sheer slip and we
can see her breasts, a brief glimpse of a man's buttocks. A man and woman are having sex
and we see thrusting as he's on top of her.
VIOLENCE/GORE 8 - Many shootouts with people dying and some blood. During
one shooting blood spurts out of a man's head. When people are shot their bodies jerk and
twist. A car is trashed while a man sits inside it, a building burns to the ground and a
couple of people run out engulfed in flames. A couple of vicious beatings with some blood
(kicking and pistol-whipping) and beaten up faces (dried blood, bruises, etc.). A beating
leaves a man with a bloody face and hands and for the rest of the film his face is
disfigured due to the beating (swollen eyes; swollen shut in some scenes, bruises, dried
blood, etc.). A woman shows the disfigured, bloody side of her head where her ear was cut
off. A woman's face is slapped.
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PROFANITY 5 - One mumbled F-word, many mild obscenities, some scatological
references and some anatomical references. [profanity glossary]
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Bootlegging, gangs, being a loner.
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