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 spaceship carrying a prisoner, a cop and other travelers
crash lands on a desert-like planet inhabited by creatures that come out to feed when
it's dark. With Vin Diesel, Radha Mitchell, Cole Hauser, Keith David, Ric Anderson,
Claudia Black, Les Chantery, Firass Dirani, Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Rhiana Griffith and Sam
Sari. [1:47]
SEX/NUDITY 2 - Some sexual innuendo. Two women wear cleavage- and
midriff-revealing shirts throughout the movie (in one scene, a woman's cleavage is
particularly noticeable while she's on her hands and knees in front of the camera).
VIOLENCE/GORE 8 - A person is shot several times (lots of blood sprays onto
someone near by) and another's back is slashed (the long, bloody cut is visible). Someone
is pulled into a hole and presumably eaten (we see blood on his face before he disappears,
then see blood surrounding the hole). Creatures attack several people, but due to lots of
quick cuts with the camera no explicit gore is visible unless otherwise noted: creatures
fly away with a person's body, a creature grabs a person's neck and pulls the body up a
wall, a creature stabs someone and then flies off with the body (we see blood dripping
into a puddle), a creature impales someone (this is seen in an "infrared" shot)
and then bites the person's head, a creature bites a person's leg (some blood is visible)
and from a distance we see creatures feeding on a corpse (this is also seen in an
"infrared" shot). In a long, chaotic scene of a space ship crash-landing, a man
is impaled by a pole (we later see the bloody pole sticking out of his chest and hear him
screaming in pain as he dies), people fall to the ground and are struck by objects, the
windshield of the ship is shattered (it breaks into a woman's face, but she's not cut) and
the ship catches on fire; parts of the ship rip off when it hits the ground. A man slices
a creature (squishy noises are heard) and pieces of it fall to the ground; a few creatures
are shot at. A creature's sharp claw nearly stabs a man's head. Creatures fight with each
other while flying; pieces of them fall to the ground and their blue-colored blood falls
on people below. We see a close-up of a creature bubbling when it's exposed to light. A
man chokes another with a metal wire. Some punches and kicks and several scuffles and
struggles in which people are shoved or thrown to the ground; in one scene, a woman
tackles a man, who then flips her and holds a knife to her throat. A man injects a drug
into his eye duct (we see a close-up of this). We hear cracking noises when a man
intentionally dislocates his shoulders and then rolls them back into place. Creatures are
fried by the space ship's fiery rockets and hit when the space ship takes off. We see a
corpse's bloody, raw face with its eyeballs missing; in another scene we see a bloody,
dismembered foot. Some threatening with guns and knives (a few people are nearly stabbed
or shot). A person has small, bloody arm scratches, another has a bloody facial scratch,
another has a bloody hand and another has a bloody leg, back and ear. We see lots of
skeletal remains of humans and large animals; in one scene, people riding in a vehicle are
nearly hit in the head with bones as they drive through the remains).
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PROFANITY 9 - About 34 F-words, many anatomical and scatological references
and many mild obscenities. [profanity glossary]
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Space travel, aliens, criminals, sacrifice, selfishness and
selflessness.
MESSAGE - Sacrificing yourself to save others is the moral, noble thing to
do.
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