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During the opening creits sequence, there are some real photographs of the deceased with injuries. A warning is provided before the film, however.The first scene depicts a 'shoot-out' in a wooden shack with bullets enetring through the walls. A man is shot in the arm, another in the head. These are fleeting but shocking injuries.A man is hit in the head by the butt of a gun. Blood is visible in the aftermath, although the attack is most shocking for its sound.A man is hit in the head twice by a metal mug - this is by surprise but not graphic.A man is speared by a very long spear in a surprising attack. No blood is visible and the violence is comparatively tame. Shortly after, in another surprising attack, the head of a different man is blown half off in the most graphic moment of violence yet within the film.A young man is whipped. Mostly, this is depicted from a POV showing only the boy's face but he screams with pain in a highly disturbing manner. Only once is a blow seen to land; at this stage, the boy is unconscious and his back is extremely torn from previous whip cracks.A man has his head stomped upon by a key character, in which only the attacker is visible. The crunching sounds are disturbing, though, and his bloody head is shown afterwards, followed by the corpse of a man whose throat has been slit.Blood oozes throught the shirt of a man who has been injured in the abdomen. He is then stabbed slowly with a large knife. Only his cries are heard, but they make it a distressing death, and the image of him with the knife in his chest is seen briefly once he has died. He is then shot by another character, although his body is not shown at this point.Three men raid a prison and rescue one prisoner whose back is heavily and fatally torn. The prison guards are beaten thereafter and one stabbing action is visible, although it is brief and not very clear. In a folowing seen, their headless corpses are seen with their necks shown to be extremely bloody. This is one of the film's most explicitly violent images.A man is shot in the chest with a flag wrapped around his head. The flag is removed and he is shown to be covered in blood and various unclear injuries. A woman is then implicitly raped. The rapist is shot through the head and there is a deal of blood splattered on the wall. A man is then shot twice in the abdomen.
F**k (33), N****r (1), S**t (4), B*****d (9), Ass (1), Jesus (1), Christ (1), God (5), Hell (1)Many of these terms are used aggressively, and some within a sexual content.
A drunk man drinks alcohol with another more sober man.Two well-off characters drink wine with their Christmas dinner.A man takes aspirin for his headaches.A Few Characters Smoke Cigarettes.
Many of the film's violent scenes are intense, such as the first one which takes one by surprise after the opening credits sequence.Characters are threatened with violence, such as having a fork stuck in their eye or having their throat slit.The whipping scene is particularly distressing.