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.
A mob errand runner (Brad Pitt) has to go to Mexico to
retrieve a priceless pistol, but he also has to keep his promise to his girlfriend (Julia
Roberts) that this trip is his last as a mobster. Also with James Gandolfini, Bob Balaban
and J.K. Simmons. [2:03]
SEX/NUDITY 3 - Sexual innuendo that isn't very graphic (including references
to homosexuality, prostitutes and pornography). A man and woman kiss in two different
scenes (in one scene the woman doesn't kiss back). A man urinates on a wall and a man sits
on a toilet with underwear around his ankles (no nudity is visible in either scene). We
see a bare-chested man lying in bed; it's implied that he had sex with another man the
night before. Twice we see a bare-chested man, and we also see a man wearing a T-shirt and
underwear.
VIOLENCE/GORE 7 - Many people are shot, often resulting in bloody, fatal
wounds: a woman shoots herself in head and then falls into a pool of her blood; a man is
shot a few times and blood spurts from the wound (he then dies); a man's neck is shot and
blood trickles out of the bullet hole as he dies; a few men are shot and we see one's
bloody abdomen, blood under one victim's nose and on his teeth, and blood on another
victim's forehead and shirt, as well as on rocks around him; a man shoots and kills
another man and we see a woman's horrified reaction; a man shoots a gun but it backfires
and kills him; and a man threatens to shoot another to death and then shoots the man's
foot. Lots of threatening with guns (including two instances of a man holding a gun on a
woman while covering her mouth with his hand, four different scenes in which a gun is held
to a man's head, and a few instances of a crowd being threatened with a gun and men
holding guns on each other simultaneously); also, several shots are fired (a man dodges
bullets as he's shot at many times, a man shoots out a car's headlights, and a man shoots
at a door many times). We hear about a man jumping from a hotel window, which upsets two
people (but we do not see the actual jump). A man is punched twice in the face; a woman
throws a suitcase at a man's head, then throws another object that hits him in the face;
and two people bump their heads. A woman is locked in a car trunk. In two scenes of
reckless driving a car is almost hit and the occupants nearly killed (they are scared by
this); also, a car is nearly hit by a few trucks, and in another scene we hear the noise
of a loud car crash. A dog growls at a man and startles him, a dog barks menacingly at a
man, and a dog stands guard on a man by growling at him. We see blood on a corpse, a
bathroom stall and on a woman's neck, face and collar after a shooting; also, we see a man
with a bullet hole in his cap and head (blood is on his cap, hand, head and car seat). We
see a man with a small bloody cut on his nose, blood on another man's fingers, and a dried
blood stain on a car seat a couple of times. We see a dead cow.
the review continues below...
PROFANITY 10 - About 73 F-words, many scatological references, many
anatomical references and many mild obscenities. [profanity glossary]
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