Depiction of substance abuse and drug use. Frequent use of profanity, cursing, vulgar expressions, and scatological slang. Pervasive use of the sexual expletive and variations in non-sexual contexts. Buttock nudity shown in non-sexual contexts. Sexual references, crude language and sexual slurs. Implied sexual activity and sexual violence. Prolonged portrayal of torture and execution. Portrayals of prolonged suffering and emotional distress. The vigilante film appears to be making a comeback in recent years with efforts like Already Dead (2007), The Brave One (2007), Death Sentence (2007), Outlaw (2007), Harry Brown (2009) and the recent Clint Eastwood film Gran Torino (2008), as well as the subsequent remake of Death Wish (2018). Portrayals of graphic violence, including gruesome deaths(blood, gore, and detailed wounds shown). Frequent portrayals of non-graphic violence, including shootings, stabbings and explosions (blood and detail shown). But, by resorting to pantomime, it robs itself of credibility. This additional information about the movie’s content is taken from the notes of various Canadian Film Classification boards: Law Abiding Citizen could have been a great film, a dark counterculture thriller in the vein of Se7en or Silence Of The Lambs. Gary Gray’s earlier fuck-the-injustice-system thriller The Negotiator.

Why is Law Abiding Citizen rated R? Law Abiding Citizen is rated R by the MPAA for strong bloody brutal violence and torture, a scene of rape, and pervasive language. A father’s inconsolable grief over his murdered family somehow turns him into a torture porn villain with a grudge against lawyers in Law Abiding Citizen, an illogical, campy joke of a movie that suffers hugely in comparison to F.

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