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- Sex & Nudity (1)
- Violence & Gore (10)
- Profanity (1)
- Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking (2)
- Frightening & Intense Scenes (5)
- Spoilers (2)
Certification
| MPAA | Rated R for pervasive violence and some language |
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Sex & Nudity
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- When in the hospital, the camera lingers on a few naked male babies, penises visible. However, while there are a couple of them shown, none last more than ten seconds and are in no way sexual, explicit or graphic
Violence & Gore
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- A man is brutally beaten. Very bloody. He is then shot and hospitalized. He tries to escape the hospital, but a gangster catches him and slits his throat. Blood sprays all over a window. His body is dumped down a trash chute, and other characters find blood smears on the ground in front of the chute.
- A man is killed by an assassin who puts a gun to his head. Blood sprays all over the floor and a bloody bullet hole is seen on the man's head. Blood is shown spilling onto a table and pooling around his head.
- Film for all.
- Level of violence:10/10.
- Very regular and intense gun battles throughout film, literally too much violence for everything to be documented. Weapons included fists, pistols, shotguns, uzi's, grendades, machine gun's, knives and more. Blood sprays, countless bullet wounds, messy exit wounds are commonplace in the film.
- The film's action sequences are mostly divided into four setpieces; the first is in a teahouse at the beginning of the film with many bloody deaths including cops and civilians. Lasts about five or six minutes.
- The second setpiece takes place in a warehouse, where in fact TWO shootouts occur one after the other (the first being a raid between two warring triads and a second not five minutes later with the protagonist coming through the roof and shooting up the winning group, with very few survivors. This whole sequence lasts about 15 minutes.
- The third setpiece is on a docked boat, and is definitely the mildest of the four, with four or five assassins being gunned down and their victim being seriously wounded. Lasts about three minutes.
- The fourth sequence takes place in a hospital where literally SCORES of people (patients, police officers, and thugs) are mowed down and executed by a wide variety of guns. Babies and other patients are also in danger of being blown up by the villain, who has his thugs set the whole place up with explosives. This sequence lasts about 35-40 minutes if you include one of their first victims being chased through the facility while he's in a wheelchair.
- The body count is numbered at around 300. The violence itself literally takes up almost three quarters of the film's two-hour runtime (perhaps more). There is lots of blood and people die via shooting, explosions, stabbing, throat slitting, and even executions. Blood is seen spraying, squirting, splattering, covering surfaces and people, etc. It's not overly disturbing, but it's pretty constant. A a brutal and very bloody beating takes place as well.
Profanity
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- 13 uses of the F-word (1 used with the prefix mother), 1 use of bitch, and other more moderate profanity.
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
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- Drugs: None
- Characters smoke and occasionally drink.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
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- Hard Boiled is a very violent film but is not on a level that many people would consider, "disturbing". This is particularly because the movie always has a lot of people being shot at in several sequences to the point where it doesn't really matter how bad the wounds are.
- The most intense part of the film is at the end, in the last shootout at the hospital, where civilians lives are in danger (and some of them die), including new-born babies
- A man is severely beaten, and then has his throat slit while coping with injuries in a hospital.
- The action sequences are also intense and acrobatic.
- Many civilians (including babies) are in constant danger in the second half of the film. We see scores of patients being gunned down relentlessly by gangsters in a handful of scenes.
Spoilers
Violence & Gore
- A character gets shot through the eye. The eyeball is briefly shown bursting with blood spraying from the socket.
Profanity
- A man is calling a woman bitch after she slaps him.
