Parents guide

A group of marines are playing football in an open field and decide to humiliate their troop leader. They remove some of their clothes and start acting out sex positions.

Several crude mentions of sexual topics.

A man is shown from the back in a bathroom implied to be masturbating.

A short scene shows a man and a woman having sex up against a wall, no female nudity. There is moaning, full male rear nudity, and some frontal male nudity (obscured by shadow).

A group of marines take a shower in a communal shower room. Both their buttocks and genitals are shown in extended shots; however, the nudity is mostly obscured by the dark lighting.

A pornographic video is watched by a group of men showing from a distance a man having sex with a woman from behind, with the side of her breast visible. Brief, but graphic.

Nude shot of a man from behind.

We see a very brief scene of a man's rear end and part of his genitals are shown.

A woman's bare breasts are seen for a very brief moment while she is pulling a shirt down over her head.

A Marine sticks his tongue out between two of his fingers, gesturing towards an Arabic woman.

Some soldiers are bombed by accident and flail around on fire

A man is threatened with a loaded gun and cries

Throughout the film soldiers talk about how they want to kill and see action.

A man has his face slammed against a wall

Men are tackled and rough-house while playing football.

Two soldiers line up a shot on a man and almost kill him

A few large explosions as a plane drops bombs.

Level of violence: 7/10. Strong violence.

A soldier is gunned to death in basic training as he stands up while live ammo is fired above him. Some blood spray and a wound are seen.

An initiation rite involves a group of soldiers holding a man down as he is branded.

'Fuck' is said 278 times, including in sexual contexts and paired with 'mother' several times.

'Shit' is said 69 times.

'P*ssy' is said three times.

'Titties' is said once.

'Ass' is said 20 times.

'Cunt' is said once in Spanish.

'Hell' is said several times.

A couple uses of 'fag' and 'faggot'.

There is a party on Christmas Eve where some of the soldiers get drunk from contraband alcohol.

When asked what he will do when out of the Marines, a soldier says he will sell some crack and sling some dope.

A few instances of sudden outbursts by characters.

Soldiers endure harsh training over several extended scenes.

Many dead bodies are visible in a few scenes.

Many scenes depicting the stress, degradation and humiliation of Marine training and the mentally straining and life-threatening aspects of combat during Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm.

In a very intense scene, a soldier threatens another with a fully-loaded rifle.