Common Sense Note

Parents need to know that this movie is not for kids. It's focused on cops undercover as drug smugglers: This involves lying, dealing with criminals, and performing illegal activities. The film includes frequent references to drug use and some images (crystal meth, cocaine, heroin). It also features brutal violence: gunshots blow through bodies, limbs, and heads, producing much blood. The effect is not cartoonish, but grisly and startling. Characters seek revenge, but don't always feel better when they achieve it.

Sexual Content

Sex scenes show naked bottoms and breasts (two makeout scenes in showers); some kissing and slinky dancing.

Violence

Explosions, bloody gunfights (arms, chests, and heads blown off or open); fighting and stabbing.

Language

Repeated uses of f-word and s--t; other obscenities and occasional slang for male genitals.

Social Behavior

Cops and criminals corrupt; undercover cops lie for a living and kill many bad guys, but love their women.

Consumerism

Mac powerbooks, allusion to Fed Ex.

Drugs / Tobacco / Alcohol

Focus on drug dealers (mostly heroin bricks); protagonists drink liguor; secondary characters smoke cigarettes, cook meth, and drink liquor.