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Hard Target | 1993 | R | - 2.9.6
Jean-Claude Van Damme goes after a bunch of hunters, whose prey is homeless Vietnam vets.
SEX/NUDITY 2 - A picture of a naked woman on a handbill advertising phone sex. Some cleavage, and muscular Van Damme finds a reason to show off in a tank-top.
VIOLENCE/GORE 9 - The extreme violence is hyperbolic but credible nevertheless. Many people are killed in innovative ways: by arrows, fire, bullets of various calibre, hand grenades and Van Damme's kicks. A man's arm is twisted back and broken. A man's earlobe is cut off with scissors (we hear his screams and see the bloody result). A man is shot in the eye through his door's peep hole. A man is shot in the head and his brains end up all over the windshield of his car. A rattlesnake bites a man on the face. And, a man is shot in the crotch, repeatedly.
LANGUAGE 6 - 12 F-words and several other profanities and insults.
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Murder for pleasure, greed.
MESSAGE - Bad guys will eventually get their comeuppance.
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