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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for violence throughout, language and brief nudity
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • Like in the other films Terminators appear naked when they first travel back to the past
  • One scene shows a naked woman falling to the ground and getting her bearings. Her buttocks were shown at least twice. The sides of her breasts are shown in a medium shot that last roughly five seconds.
  • A couple kisses
  • Mackenzie Davis's butt can be seen

Violence & Gore

  • The antagonist ruthlessly pursues a young woman with the intent to kill her. He kills many, many people that try to get in his way.
  • More than a dozen military personnel are stabbed and slashed with knives that act as an extension of the antagonist's arms. Nothing too disturbing is shown, but the series of attacks is somewhat bloody. All those who directly engage him are presumably killed. Innocent people are also in danger throughout.
  • Five or six soldiers try to subdue the villain, but he violently cuts himself free. They are all presumably killed, but the act is so brief that it's hard to discern if anyone survives.
  • Two people are fatally stabbed by someone who, until they actually carry out the attack, seems to be a random passerby. Blood is shown pouring from the wounds. Brief.
  • A lot of fistfights and beatings with blunt/sharp weapons. One sees someone using a sledgehammer, and later that same person utilises a metal chain. This is usually to fend off the villain, but whenever he gets damaged by them it is bloodless.
  • The protagonists fight the villain inside a falling plane, and the Terminator punches the villain several times, but it eats the flesh off of his hand. The two continue to struggle, with the villain being shot, and some other characters getting injured, and the Terminator manages to pin it to the wall and blow open the back of the plane with its gun.
  • A character needlessly slices a fly in half, seemingly to show off her combat skills.

Profanity

  • On par with the second film, and more profane than the three in-between entries. Uses of shit, ass/asshole, bitch, and occasional F words. A few of the uses of the F word are used angrily, and in conjunction with 'mother.'
  • 15 uses the F-word including twice from the opening T2 footage, and two used, as aforementioned, in conjunction with 'mother'.
  • 2 uses of hell

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Some beer drinking.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Two people are fatally stabbed by someone who, until they actually carry out the attack, seems to be a random passerby. Blood is shown pouring from the wounds. Brief.
  • Probably the most intense and violent film in the franchises due to the Rev 9 killing many people in order to get to Sarah Connor, but every time someone is killed it is either not that graphic, not focused on or just plain off screen with a bloody aftermath. But all and all it is still pretty freighting and scary.

Spoilers

The Parents Guide items below may give away important plot points.

Violence & Gore

  • In the beginning of the film, John Connor is shot 3 times in the chest with a shotgun. He is seen convulsing on the ground after the second shot and is then finished with a third shot.
  • Johns death may be pretty shocking to some fans of the franchise as it is already a very intense scene and it's really sudden and might be upsetting for younger kids seeing a teen get mercilessly killed BY the T-800.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Johns death may be pretty shocking to some fans of the franchise as it is already a pretty intense scene and it's very sudden and might be disturbing for younger kids seeing a teen get mercilessly killed BY the T-800.

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