What Parents Need to Know
Parents need to know that this Vin Diesel movie has lots of intense action sequences and strong language for a PG-13 rating. Characters use drugs, drink, and smoke. In one scene, a number of people are killed in a particularly heartless fashion, while others watch and make fun of them. There are implied sexual situations, including a character telling his girlfriend to have sex with someone else and a woman given to X as a sexual favor, but nothing explicit is shown. A character explains his plans for world anarchy in a manner that is worth discussing with teenagers who see the film.
- Families can talk about the different definitions of "freedom" that bad guy Yorgi, X, and Gibbons mean when they use the term.
- What is your own definition? Why? How does X decide who deserves hisloyalty? How does Yorgi? How does Gibbons?
- Parents might also discussthe sexual innuendos with their younger kids to put some of the poledancing favors into perspective. As for the rest, you might ask yourkids what makes a bad guy a bad guy?
- The hero has good and bad in him.What do they admire? What do they think the rewards are for the hero?