this is probably the tamest R rated movie I have ever seen. Why is it R? Sure some people get shot but there is hardly any blood. No more violent than a James Bond (which rate from PG - PG13) or a Mission Impossible movie. There is also no F bombs or nudity. Too bad. Probably would have done better at the box office if it had got the deserved PG-13 rating
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I agree. I just seen this and had to recheck the box to see the rating. R? Thats bogus.
shareYes 'Executive Decision' doesn't have any 'R' content and I've seen it several times. I've always seen my share of 'R' rated movies and I wouldn't put this movie in that category. Had I not known it was rated R I would've guessed PG-13.
shareA lady is beaten to death in the beginning, a terrorist shoots another terrorist point blank for disagreeing with him, terrorist shoots a pleading hostage, the movie is more intense and realistic than most PG-13 movies, gunshots are pretty bloody, surviving terrorist is covered in blood after being shot and then shoots 2 pilots before being shot more times. Air Force Once is no more violent and gets a R rating too mostly due to intensity, shooting hostages like in "Executive Decision". There is enough violence/intensity to warrant a R rating, it just does not have anything particularly graphic or a bunch of F bombs like most other R rated movies. I am glad they to not try to make it a lighter movie and edit out more violence to get a PG-13 rating and kept it R.
shareA lady is beaten to death in the beginning, a terrorist shoots another terrorist point blank for disagreeing with him, terrorist shoots a pleading hostage, the movie is more intense and realistic than most PG-13 movies, gunshots are pretty bloody, surviving terrorist is covered in blood after being shot and then shoots 2 pilots before being shot more times. Air Force Once is no more violent and gets a R rating too mostly due to intensity, shooting hostages like in "Executive Decision". There is enough violence/intensity to warrant a R rating, it just does not have anything particularly graphic or a bunch of F bombs like most other R rated movies. I am glad they to not try to make it a lighter movie and edit out more violence to get a PG-13 rating and kept it R.
The violence does not have to be particularly graphic to get a R rating. Some has to do with the overall tone and mood of the movie, Executive Decision was a more serious more realistic movie so the violence seemed more intense compared to lighter PG-13 movies like superhero movies that may show more blood hence why it got an R rating. Plus these days with the fake CGI dark blood spurts when people are shot or stabbed, it just looks so fake and unrealistic(Walking Dead, Die Hard 4) which is how they get away with more blood and still get a PG-13. Some movies are hard PG-13 while others are soft R, "Executive Decision" and "Air Force One" was not trying to appeal to younger views like kids and teens so they likely never fought for a PG-13 rating, it was made to appeal to adults. A hostage pleading for their life when they are unarmed and then getting shot and killed normally warrants a R rating.
shareNah, far too many graphic blood squibs for a PG-13, which tend to have dust-puffs instead of blood-spurts.
Air Force One also had brain splatter. Both films are firmly in the lighter end of R territory.
Indeed Drooch and these movies were made for adults.
"*beep* the law, i want meat"-Nightbreed.
This definitely isn't a hard R but it's certainly got R-rated violence, at least going by the MPAA's usual standards. The movie literally opens with Seagal slitting a guy's throat with an extreme close-up of the wound, for god's sake. Not to mention all the blood squibs when people get shot. Violence has to be mostly bloodless to get a PG-13.
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