violence

There are some scenes of violence, including the film's prologue, set in Earth's pre-history, in which ape-like creatures kill animals for food and then turn on each other, using a bone as a club.

threat and horror

There are some intense sequences of threat, including when a spaceship's computer prevents an astronaut re-entering the ship. A sequence in which an astronaut encounters the source of an alien signal is intense, focussing on his fear and distress as he enters the unknown.

language

There is use of very mild bad language ('damn' and 'hell')

threat and horror

There are scenes of fantastical threat as characters are chased and menaced by robots and other creatures intent on doing them harm. Characters are also endangered by malfunctioning space vessels, but work together to escape their predicaments and achieve reassuring outcomes. Although scenes of threat are occasionally prolonged, the intensity is broken up by comic moments.

violence

Mild violence is of a wholly fantastical nature as good and bad characters battle each other with sci-fi laser weapons, explosive devices and darts with knockout properties. There is no realistic injury detail.

There is very mild emotional upset as a character learns of the death of a close friend from old age during his absence through a hologram message she has left him.

violence

A character is caught in a noose which causes him to choke, before he is hauled up and briefly hanged, but he is quickly rescued. There is also a shooting and some blows to the face.

language

There is mild bad language including use of 'sonofabitch', 'shit' and 'asshole'.

threat

Children are threatened by fantastical forces: they flee a vast storm, fall from great height and meet sinister red-eyed villains along their journey. A physical embodiment of evil flies through space and hits the Earth, causing explosions. Two young men, influenced by this evil, bully a homeless man.

There are moments of violence: a girl throws a ball into a bully's face; a girl is caught by the tendrils of a fantastical force and flung around.

threat

There are a lot of prolonged fight sequences between various robotic entities and between the heroes and the main villain. Nobody ever gets hurt in these fights, but there is a lot of destruction wrought and the scenes are very noisy. Some of the images of the villain, as he summons up his huge army of microbots, are a little scary.

The film also contains a narrative thread dealing with bereavement which is shown to be the principal motivating factor for the main character.

violence

Scenes of violence include laser gun fights, stabbings, slashings, characters being blasted by fantastical powers, and crunchy fistfights. There is occasional sight of blood - primarily from aliens - and a woman largely comprised of robotic parts contorting her broken limbs as she reforms. Another woman's arm is broken during a fight.

threat and horror

There are sustained scenes of threat during action sequences in which ships explode and people avoid falling debris. Sequences also include gun threat, and people being blasted or held by fantastical powers. There are occasional 'jump scares', including from monsters and aliens. Animals are transformed into humanoid creatures, and there are distressing scenes of animals being experimented and operated on, leaving them as robotic-animal hybrids.

language

There is infrequent strong language ('f**k') and milder terms including 'asshole', 'ass', 'dick', 'dickhead', 'son of a bitch', 'shit', 'piss', 'douche', 'God', 'hell', 'frickin'', 'freaking', 'screw', damn', 'butt' and 'jerk'.

sex

There are moments of innuendo around 'touching' someone, and oblique references to promiscuity.

drugs

Aliens are briefly seen dealing an unnamed drug. Later, a man refers to dealing 'meth' in a clearly condemnatory manner.

injury detail

Characters sustain various injuries, including sight of blood, burn wounds and a man's disfigured face after he has been mauled. A person is reduced to a charred corpse after being blasted by fantastical energy.

rude humour

A man makes a comic reference to the shape of his defecation.

alcohol and tobacco

A man appears drunk, and there are references to it being a pattern of behaviour.

violence

Scenes include close-quarters combat with bladed weapons, including slashes and stabbings resulting in brief sight of blood. There is occasional focus on bloodied blades, or blood on hands and clothes. Other sequences depict large scale attacks in which ships and buildings are bombed and explode, and a number of deaths caused by toxic gas.

threat and horror

Scenes of threat include characters being pursued and attempting to escape giant worms, flying through a sandstorm, fleeing from explosions, being held at knife point, and being targeted by remote devices that inject poison. A character is left paralysed by poison, and his body is seen naked in a chair as his enemies mock him.

There are occasional mild sex references, including in a sequence in which men's comments suggest threatening intent towards a woman. There is use of mild bad language ('ass') and milder terms including 'God', 'hell', and 'damn'. Occasional reference is made to the hallucinogenic properties of a fictional substance.

language

There is infrequent strong language ('f**k'), as well as milder terms including 'bitch', 'bullshit', 'bloody' and 'piss'.

threat and horror

There are frequent tense sequences in which people are in dangerous situations, come under fire, or attempt to evade bombs. In one scene terrorists take over an auditorium and there is brief distress among the audience. There is also a scene in which an abusive husband holds his wife at gunpoint, and threatens to beat her with his belt.

violence

Scenes include gunfights, fistfights, stabbings, use of improvised weapons, and explosions. In an interrogation scene it is implied a man's teeth are pulled out, but bloody detail is minimal. Another man is beaten to death, but the scene does not feature strong detail. A man verbally threatens another man with castration. A husband is abusive towards his wife, threatening her and later shooting her. In one scene she aims a gun at him, but he disarms and punches her. His behaviour is implicitly criticised throughout.

Discreet references are made to suicide and discriminatory behaviour. There are also mild sex references.

violence

Scenes of strong violence include fights with guns and knives, resulting in bloody injuries.

language

There is occasional strong language ('f**k') as well as milder bad language such as 'prick' and 'shit'.

nudity

There is female breast and buttock nudity.

violence

There are scenes of strong violence, including bloody beatings and shootings, implied stabbings, as well as emphasis on the breaking of bones. Some scenes contain slow-motion bloody detail upon impact of weapons and bullets. Other violence includes highly stylised martial arts fight sequences.

sex

There are strong visual sex references, including references to BDSM and sexual role-play (e.g. a woman uses large dildos in a bloody beating; it is implied that two men purposefully land on pointy objects, which are subsequently revealed sticking out from underneath their clothes).

language

There is use of strong language ('f**k'), accompanied by milder terms ('bitch', 'shit', 'bullshit', 'piss', 'God', 'damn' and 'butt').

flashing/flicking lights

This work contains flashing images which may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.

There are scenes of moderate, fantastical threat in which a woman is jolted from universe to universe.

violence

A rebel stabs a soldier in the chest and cuts upward, with bloody detail. A man is stabbed through the hand, with close-up focus. There are regular fights with axes, guns and makeshift weapons.

language

There is use of strong language ('f**k', 'motherf**ker') as well as other terms such as 'bitch' and 'Jesus'.

It is implied that characters misuse a fictional drug. A character tearfully admits to having eaten human babies.

language

There is strong language ('f**k').

violence

There is strong gory violence when aliens attack humans, ripping their throats and faces with sight of blood spurts and spray; a decapitation is also implied. Human characters are seen defending themselves against the aliens using a variety of weapons including baseball bats, swords and handguns. There is also a scene in which characters are robbed at gun point.

drugs

Characters are seen rolling, smoking, selling and growing marijuana.

violence

There are bloody shootings and prolonged fights scenes that include often repeated and targeted blows to the head and body. A knife is thrown into a man's head.

There are also several scenes of threat, as well as infrequent strong language ('f**k'), rude gestures and milder terms (for example, 'shit', 'bullshit', 'asshole', 'ass', 'crap', 'hell'), as well as brief sex and drug references.