Parents Guide for
Collateral (2004) More at IMDbPro »

In one scene, while the camera stays focused on the foreground, there is activity in the background of the shot, a little blurry, that appears to be two women sitting close together on a couch giggling and cooing for no apparent reason. They are fully dressed. At the close of the scene, they appear to be kissing.

A corpse falls from a window onto the hood of a taxi cab (We see blood spray on the windshield). The body remains there, bleeding, until two men remove it and put it in the trunk of the cab. The blood is then doused off by water.

A man draws a gun and shoots a man twice in the head at point-blank range (Blood squirts). A man shoots two other men; one lies on the ground, wounded, and the attacker shoots him in the face, killing him. A man shoots another man several times in the head, neck and torso (Bloody bullet wounds are shown, and blood squirts). A man grabs a man from behind and breaks his neck. A man is shot and killed.

A man exchanges fire with another man; the latter is shot multiple times in the torso (We see a massive amount of blood). He manages to stand upright, and sits down, has a brief conversation with his killer, before dying. It is heavily implied that a man kills another man. A man remarks that a taxi driver reportedly went on a shooting rampage before killing himself, and states that he believes that someone else was with him.

A man crashes his car purposefully, wounding him and his passenger, who escapes. A police officer tries to arrest a man; the man attacks the officer, handcuffing him and holding him at gunpoint before running off. A bloodied corpse is found in the trunk of a car. A man is shot in the shoulder (Blood sprays). A scene shows several bodies in a morgue with very gory wounds. An intense nightclub shootout depicts many characters being killed by gunfire.

Throughout the movie, the main character is held hostage by an assassin, and is forced to drive him to each of his "hits".

22 uses of "f***", with milder profanities ("Sh**", "damn" etc.)

Alcohol is shown and used at a nightclub. Some characters are involved in a narcotics ring, and narcotics are mentioned on occassion, but never shown or explicitly discussed.

The main character is held hostage throughout the course of the movie, and is forced to participate in illicit activities by his captor, who is a contract killer. The threat of violence and death is present throughout the film.