Prisoners - Family Review

Content Warnings

• Sexual Content

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  A detective talks to/interrogates, three past sex offenders. Nothing but a comment and a reference to porn magazines.

• Violence

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  A pig's head is seen briefly in a sink.

  A man pushes another man's face into a wall and he is seen bleeding from his mouth.

  A detective shows a man pictures of bloody clothes.

  A man steals a police officer's gun and shoots someone with it. Blood splatter by the wall behind him.

  A detective shouts and grabs a man that he is interrogating until two police officers pull him away; the suspect grabs a pistol and all three of the officers draw guns and tell him to put the gun down.

  A man shoots another man while he is running away, resulting in some blood splatter.

  The father beats up a man and interrogates him to the point where he has bruises all over him. He puts him in a shower and locks him in there.

  Most of the torture is implied rather than shown, but a lot of it is still graphic.

  R violence type: blood, brutal and graphic.

  Two men kidnap a mentally disabled man and tortures him for information by repeatedly striking him across the face.

• Profanity

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  The strong language is frequent, but because of the context in the movie it feels less relevant.

  43 uses of the word "fuck".

  A few religious exclamations and about 30 uses of milder language such as; 13 sh*t, 5 a*s, 2 bi*ch, 4 he*l, etc.

• Intense Scenes

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  This movie is very intense, although it has a somewhat happy ending the father goes to great lengths to find his children.

  Some of the violence is brutal.

  The shower scene is the most disturbing scene. Most of the other beating scenes are shown off-screen.

  This is a intense film from start to finish.

  A man shoots himself, some blood is shown. But this scene is short and not focused on.

  The final act is very intense and distressing.

  As soon as the children are kidnapped the movie is very intense.