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.
In the 19th
installment of the James Bond series, Pierce Brosnan protects
Sophie Marceau from the Russian villains who killed her oil tycoon
father and are planning to destroy the pipeline she's building.
Also with Denise Richards, Robert Carlyle, Judi Dench, Robbie
Coltrane, Samantha Bond, Desmond Llewelyn, John Cleese, Maria
Grazia Cucinotta, Goldie, Ulrich Thomsen, Claude-Oliver Rudolph,
Colin Salmon and Michael Kitchen. [2:05]
SEX/NUDITY 5 - Many instances of subtle sexual
innuendo, a couple of passionate kisses (in one scene, a woman
straddles a man and kisses him briefly). A shirtless man takes off
a woman's skirt and shirt (we see her bra and panties), kisses her
passionately and pulls her on top of him before the scene ends.
Two post- or pre-coitus scenes: in both, we see the backs of a
nude couple in bed, talking and kissing; in one, the woman also
runs an ice cube over the man's bare chest and arm. Several people
look at a couple's orange bodies (one lying on top of the other)
on a screen that detects heat. A man briefly runs his fingers over
a woman's bare thigh (her torso is covered with a blanket); and
she runs an ice cube down her face and neck and presumably on
lower areas (her hand goes off-screen). While wearing special
glasses, a man sees many women's bras and panties underneath their
clothing; also, we see lots of cleavage and a brief, partial
glimpse of a woman's bare breast. Lots of women and shapes
of women dance during the opening credits.
VIOLENCE/GORE 6 - A man is stabbed in the back of the
neck and another is impaled with a rocket (no blood is visible).
Lots of people are shot, but we never see any bloody gunshot
wounds; also, lots of scenes in which gunfire is exchanged, people
are nearly shot and people are threatened with guns. A dummy is
shot and torched during a training session. Two people are caught
in an avalanche but aren't injured. A man hanging onto a hot air
balloon falls onto a building's roof and roughly tumbles down it
for a few seconds (he injures his arm). A man's neck, wrists and
ankles are locked into a torture device and a small bar is cranked
into the back of his neck. A man purposely punches his hand
through a table and a woman pulls a shard of glass from his bloody
knuckles. A man forces another to hold an extremely hot rock, a
man squeezes another's injured arm, a man hits another with a gun
(he gets a bloody cut on his forehead) and a man uses another's
head as a battering ram (we see some bloody cuts on his forehead).
During a fight scene, two men punch, choke, elbow and kick each
other; also, two slaps and some punches, shoves, slamming into
walls and poles and kicks to the chest and head. An extended boat
chase during which a boat drives through another (one of the boats
explodes), a boat is hit with rockets and explodes and a boat is
launched onto land and drives through streets, a market and a
restaurant (many people are nearly hit). A hot air balloon
explodes, a helicopter explodes, a small plane crashes into a
tree, a snow mobile crashes into a bank and two planes crash into
each other (all passengers are presumably killed). Lots of
explosions (sometimes killing people, though we never see them)
and lots of property damage. Men are chased by a large saw-blade
device hanging from a helicopter; the blades also saw through a
building and a car. We see several corpses in different scenes;
one is thrown into a dumpster and some are thrown into the sea. A
car falls into water but its passengers swim to safety. After an
explosion, a man has bloody facial cuts and a bloody cut on his
hand. We see a man with a gunshot wound scar on his forehead and
learn that the bullet is still in his brain.
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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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