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Sex & Nudity

  • An old woman indicates she avoid riding elevators "because of all the rapists."
  • A character comments how he "could have been up to his neck in t*ts and a*s" had he chosen a different career.
  • The camera briefly focuses on a Playboy magazine cover (no nudity shown).
  • A man and woman dance and then have a prolonged kiss.
  • A man and a woman share a long passionate kiss.
  • Two characters are shown in bed lying on top of each other fully naked, without covers, for several minutes as they talk and kiss. Buttocks and breasts are mostly blocked from view with the side angle of the camera.
  • Opening sequence shows a close of Angelina's breast, and nipple through a wet, see-through blouse
  • There is no male nudity or privates seen through clothing.
  • After tumbling down a mudslide, a character lands face first on a woman's lap.

Violence & Gore

  • A man gets stabbed; however, the resulting wound is not shown onscreen.
  • A woman is hit in the head and knocked unconscious.
  • A woman notices a man under her table and thinking that he is trying to look up her skirt, knocked him around and pushes him out of the door.
  • A man attacked a woman with a knife but is fended off before she is injured.
  • The protagonist are shot at many times throughout the film but I've never hit.
  • Frequent action/adventure violence. Some occasional hand-to-hand combat and gun violence (with no emphasis on pain or injury). Some off-screen deaths also occur throughout the film.
  • The villain threatens the protagonist by cutting her hand. The resulting wound can be seen.
  • A characters hand is bitten off by an alligator and the gruesome stump (muscles, bones, arteries spurting blood) can be seen for several seconds as he lets out repeated blood curdling screams of pain. He frantically holds his arm in pain and tries to bandage it. This particular moment of violence is quite vivid, however, there is an emphasis placed upon the pain that the character is experiencing.

Profanity

  • "Shit" is used at least three times.
  • "Bitch is used twice.
  • G*dd*mn is used several times.
  • "Hell" is used at least three times.
  • Multiple uses of G. D.
  • "Ass" is said.
  • 5 uses of "shit", 14 uses of "hell", 5 uses of "ass", 1 use of "damn", 12 uses of "goddamn", 3 uses of "son of a bitch", 1 use of "bitch", 3 uses of "bastard", 2 uses of "Jesus Christ", 2 uses of "Christ", 1 use of "For Christ sake".
  • Frequent profanity throughout, as well as mild insults.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • It's implied that Juan is a drug smuggler and men in his village are drug runners.
  • The protagonists share a small bottle of alcohol. Later they both drink alcohol straight from a large bottle.
  • A wrecked cargo plane is found containing large packages of marijuana. One character implies having smoked marijuana in college.
  • Contains some casual smoking and drinking throughout the film.
  • Two characters light a fire using bricks made out of marijuana, and one inhaled deeply. Later the other character says she is getting dizzy.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

Spoilers

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Sex & Nudity

  • At the start of the movie, it's implied that a man intends to rape a woman. She kills him with a knife before he gets a chance.

Violence & Gore

  • Moments later this character falls backward onto an oil lamp. It crushes and bursts into flame lighting his back on fire as he continues to scream out in pain. He then staggers toward the heroine brandishing a knife. He lunged but falls into the alligator pit to his death. Blood curdling screams and crunching sounds can be heard although not seen.

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