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Licence to Kill
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Sex & Nudity

Bond has sex with a woman nothing over the top. A man tries to force a woman to sleep with him, but she breaks loose from his hold and kicks in the testicles.

Violence & Gore

A woman is whipped for commiting adultry, while her lover is killed off-screen. It is implied he had his heart cut out. We only hear him yelling while there is a close-up of the woman being whipped.

A man whacks another man in the face with the butt of his rifle in a van; there is bloody mark on his cheek as he slumps into the driver's seat.

A man's leg is bitten off by a shark. We see the bloody stump. Bond finds a girl with a bullet in her chest, (though the impact is not that visable) and also finds a man in a body bag with blood over him.

Bond, shoots a harpoon at a man, very little blood is shown at impact.

A tank shoots at an abandon house, killing two people, we see blood trickle over their faces.

A woman jumps out and shoots two army men dead, followed by an army officer shooting her brutally with three bloody holes in her chest.

A man is thrown into a decompression chamber and is disrupted, causing the man's head to swell and explodes. Blood splatters on the door window.

Bond pulls a man, while dangling from a cocaine grinder under him, the man tries to hold on to Bond screaming, while his legs are being minced. We see blood and gore hit the camera. He eventually is dragged down followed by further squieling. We see red smoke eminating.

A man is found dead impaled by a fork-lift.

A man is shot visciously with a sub-machine gun, no blood is visual upon impact though.

Two men fight a-top a moving truck, with one man weilding a machete at his opponent.

Bond crawls away from a truck wreckage with cuts around his face and torso.

Other acts of violence is mostly moderate throughout.

Profanity

Occasional mild language.

The villain is a druglord, and Bond smokes and drinks. Drugs are seen throughout the whole movie (never actually being used, however).

There a sharp increase in the amount of smoking in License to Kill compared to several previous James Bond films. In fact, this film had more smoking than any James Bond film since On Her Majesty's Secret Service in 1969! Timothy Dalton, Robert Davi, and Carey Lowell are among the 10 different actors seen smoking during the film.

Using a standardized scoring system, this film received a smoking rating of 4 Butts (on a scale of 0-4 Butts). For more information on the impact of onscreen smoking and the initiation of youth tobacco use, or for more information on the rating system, visit www.smokescreeners.org.

Man gets a leg bitten off by a shark.

A man is set on fire. He flails around for a few seconds before he falls to the ground, igniting an explosion of a crashed tanker truck.

A man's head explodes inside a decompression chamber. Blood and guts are spattered against the window.

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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for action violence and drug content. (2006 video version)
Certification:
Canada:AA (Ontario) / Canada:13+ (Quebec) / Canada:A (Nova Scotia) / Canada:PA (Manitoba) / West Germany:16 (video rating) (cut) / Germany:16 (re-release) (uncut) / Ireland:15 / USA:R (original rating) / USA:PG-13 (edited for re-rating) / South Korea:15 / Brazil:12 / Portugal:M/12 / Argentina:13 / Australia:M / Finland:K-16 / Iceland:12 / Norway:15 / Peru:14 / Sweden:15 / UK:15 / Singapore:PG

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