
Director(s)
Cary Joji Fukunaga
Production Year
2015
Release date
16/10/2015
Genre(s)
Drama, War
Approx. running minutes
136m
Cast
Idris Elba, Richard Pepple, Opeyemi Fagbohungbe, Abraham Attah, Ama K. Abebrese
Beasts Of No Nation
Director(s)
Cary Joji Fukunaga
Production Year
2015
Release date
16/10/2015
Genre(s)
Drama, War
Approx. running minutes
136m
Cast
Idris Elba, Richard Pepple, Opeyemi Fagbohungbe, Abraham Attah, Ama K. Abebrese
BEASTS OF NO NATION is a war drama about a young boy who is abducted and forced to fight as a boy soldier in a civil war in an unidentified sub-Saharan African country.
- Violence
There is strong bloody violence throughout as combatants and non-combatants alike are shot, hacked to death or blown up with grenades - often with casual indifference. Stronger moments of violence include a prisoner being hacked to death with machetes as part of an obedience test and a woman being shot in the head with an assault rifle at point blank range.
- Language
There are approximately twenty-five uses of strong language ('f**k' and 'motherf**ker').
- Drugs
There are several portrayals of cannabis joint smoking, more often than not by child soldiers. In one scene an adult rebel commander places resin, possibly heroin, on silver foil, heats it and inhales the resulting fumes.
Other issues include natural male nudity and some mild sex references.
Classified date
17/09/2015
BBFC reference
ARR330794
Language
English