If this film gets granted the R rating I will be in the theaters opening night. If they tone it down to some pg13 crap I will just wait for Netflix. If you've ever read the books, I assume anyone on here right now has then you know they are brutally descriptive and violent. The essence of the cold blooded Mitch Rapp or even that of Stan Hurley cannot possibly be done in a film expecting twelve year olds to go see it
shareWell, 12 year olds won't see it if it's rated PG-13 (supposedly). Anyway - could be R, but in America, violence and gore gets a pass. It's usually sex that rates an R (and there was only one sex scene in American Assassin, and it wasn't very explicit).
shareThe tone of the movie, the subject matter it deals with is meant for an R rated movie. Yes violence may get a pass for pg-13, not so much gore though, don't remember the last time I saw bloody violence in a pg13 film. Even if there is those movies are always lighthearted fun for the whole family with jokes thrown in, American Assassin wasn't exactly a funny book
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well, i haven't read the books yet but, like someone else said, the bourne movies are violent enough and they can transmit the violence without seeing guts spilling and whatever gore you seem to want.
i don't believe violence is all about blood and stuff like that. You also end up being too cheesy to do something like that. put blood there just to show blood. yeah that's nice.
give me a cold vicious killer who will look you in the eye and shoot you in the head without blinking and then go and eats a subway sandwish instead of a guy you'll gut you and ends up covered in blood.
it's the cold chilling ones that should get to people, not the hot blooded overdone ones. beasides, are you really a professional assassin if you go and gut people and end up drenched in blood? shouldn't you be indiferent to it all and just kill the person you've been set to kill?
unless there's a torture scene i don't know about and then all bets are off.
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I'm not talking about gutting someone and getting covered in blood I'm not talking about over the top gore I'm talking about realistically brutal violence as is in the books. Shooting a man then stepping over him and putting two more in his face just for the hell of it, then afterwards the thought process about how it felt good to do it. And yes there is a very brutal torture scene in this book in which the man being tortured laughs in the face of his captor, daring him to inflict more pain.
And yes the Bourne movies were violent but Bourne also almost never used a gun and they weren't point blank range. Read the books and understand what I'm talking about before you try to make me out to be a gore hound
Have you ever seen "The Americans"? That's not rated anything. It's on public television. It is brutally descriptive and violent. It oozes with cold-blooded killings. It shows lots of rather explicit sex. If that can be shown on public tv, then this movie can be done right, with all of the necessary violence and chill, and still be rated PG-13. FYI - "The Americans" - GREAT SHOW! Watch it if you haven't already.
shareI have not watched the Americans yet but while that was on cable it was given the TVMA rating for mature audiences only. Shows with that rating can be extremely graphic, look at the violence in Sons of Anarchy or The Walking Dead. They may be on cable but they're shown later at night with a mature rating, I hope to God that parents aren't watching shows like that with kids. I understand the pg13 rating allegedly appeals to a wider audience but I also think it alienates the target audience sometimes. Expendables 3 and aliens vs predator are two examples that attempted to do that and flopped hard. I think pg13 works in some instances, for example Star Wars movies and the marvel movies, I enjoy the hell out of all those but they're also something kids would see. Make this movie pg13, say "based on the bestselling novel" and no kids will want to see it anyway so why not go R and target it towards the age group that would actually not only go to see it, but also understand it?
shareThere is absolutely no way a movie studio is going to sacrifice dollars for an R rating, when, if done properly, they can make it great with a PG 13 rating. Its all about the benjamins and being able to appeal to a mass population. Regardless, I can't wait to see what they do with it.
shareSame here i'll pay to see it in cinema if its R
I'm so tired of these PG13 sanitized trash, enough!!!!!!!!