Kraven the Hunter | 2024 | R | – 1.7.5

Why is “Kraven the Hunter” rated R? The MPAA rating has been assigned for “strong bloody violence, and language.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes many encounters with wild animals causing death and injury, many fight scenes with people fighting and using super-powers and weapons to kill each other with bloody wounds visible, a few scenes of buffalo being slaughtered to poach their horns, a car chase, a helicopter chase, discussions of a woman being a mystic and another woman committing suicide, many arguments and about 8 F-words and other strong language. Read our parents’ guide below for details on sexual content, violence & strong language.

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A man (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) determined to not follow in his father’s (Russell Crowe) criminal footsteps, is imbued with superpowers after a near fatal lion attack and uses those powers to rid the world of bad people. Also with Fred Hechinger, Ariana DeBose, Christopher Abbott and Alessandro Nivola. Directed by J.C. Chandor. Several lines of dialogue are spoken in Russian with English subtitles. [Running Time: 2:07]

Kraven the Hunter SEX/NUDITY 1

 – A man tells a woman that he likes her perfume and when she says that she is not wearing any, it becomes obvious that the man she is with has been with another woman; she slaps him and leaves.
► A man removes his shirt and his bare chest, abdomen and back are seen. A man showers and we see his silhouette through frosted glass. A woman wears a leather vest that reveals cleavage and bare shoulders.

Kraven the Hunter VIOLENCE/GORE 7

 – A man finds many buffalo slaughtered for their horns, he stands at a gate in front of a truck blocking the exit, the truck speeds forward and the man slides under the vehicle, jumps into the back of the truck killing two men by slashing them with a blade (blood sprays), climbs into the cab, slashes another man and bites the nose off a fourth spitting the bloody nose onto a man chasing in another car. A man pulls a tooth out of a tiger head on a floor and uses it to stab one man in the leg and another man in the body before stabbing a third man in the neck, causing a lot of blood to spurt and pour from the wounds. Two men try to intimidate another man and press on a weight bar that he is using, pinning him to the bench; he throws them off and slams them into the bar. A man holds a teen boy at gunpoint and the teen draws a knife, throws it hitting the man in the head and tackles another man pounding him in the head and face several times (we see the man’s bloody head). A man sits in an office pointing a crossbow at another man that enters the office; the man shoots the man with an arrow pinning him to the wall and we see another man dead and pinned to the back of the door when it closes (blood pools on the floor). A man speaks to another man, counts to three and seems to disappear, and the other man is shown after he has been shot (we hear the gunshot) and blood sprays on the wall behind him. A man fights with several men kicking one in the leg snapping the leg and we see blood spurt, another man’s head is slammed against a rock (blood spurts) and another man is stabbed. Many gunmen search for a man in a booby-trapped area; we see men caught in animal traps and left dead and bloody, others are struck by swinging tree trunks covered with spikes; a helicopter launches flares to the ground causing fires and explosions. A man is struck with a dart that appears to contain a sedative or a hallucinogenic that causes him to imagine many spiders crawling on and around him; his attacker punches him hard in the face a few times (we see blood), stands over him with a gun and the attacker is shot through the eye with an arrow from off-screen (we see blood and the arrow sticking out of his eye).
► A huge lion snarls and growls at two teen boys, and one boy aims his gun at the animal, then puts it down; someone else shoots at the lion and it attacks the boy, biting him on the chest and carrying him away; we see bloody bite marks on the teen’s chest and he is shown flat-lining in a hospital later as medical personnel perform chest compressions, but he revives and a doctor says that he had been dead for more than 3 minutes.
► A man finds blood on a pillow and realizes that someone has taken another man and we see the victim being injected with a sedative; he follows them, climbing down a high-rise building, runs on streets and bridges chasing the car they are in, he jumps onto the car punching the glass to break it, pulls the door open by bending the metal back and he is shot at by people inside the vehicle; the car crashes into another vehicle throwing the man on the ground and they speed away. A man chases a vehicle to a helicopter where he tries to keep it from taking off, he attaches a net to the helicopter and ties it to a pier, a man inside the helicopter shoots at the man on the ground and he throws a metal pole hitting the shooter and throwing him off the helicopter (we see blood spray); the man tries to climb up the net and is dragged through the water until he slams into a buoy and lets go.
► A woman pulls a gun out of a bag in a crowded club and shoots at a man; several others in the club open fire, several people are struck and we see that a man has been struck in the arm (we see some blood and he pours liquor on it) and a young man hides under a piano. A man shoots another man three times in the chest, he falls back to the ground and revives as we see his skin turn gray and become thick; he pulls the bullets out of his chest (we see some blood) and the first man is shot dead, and several other men shoot each other with blood spurting. A prison guard holds a gun on a man and the man moves toward the guard and seems to disappear; he reappears behind the guard holding the guard’s gun and shoots him. A man punches another man hard in the face.
► A stampede of buffalo charge toward several cars, slamming into them and flipping them over (we see the people in the cars being jostled and a couple thrown out of the vehicles). A man transforms into a rhino growing thick flesh and a horn; he charges toward a man and they fight, the rhino throws a truck nearly crushing the man, the man stabs the rhino in a vulnerable spot on his side and wraps him with a cable that is then thrown around a buffalo and the rhino is dragged into a stampede and trampled (we see him with blood on his mouth and face). A large bear charges toward a man and tackles him as the man tries to load a weapon unsuccessfully and the scene ends (we assume the man is killed). A leopard attacks several gunmen and when they shoot at it, it runs away. A leopard lunges onto a man and they fight briefly; the man has scratches on his arm. A dead deer hangs from a tree.
► A man scales a shear wall and climbs into a monastery, where he attacks numerous armed men inside killing them with poisoned darts, he jumps between walls kicking and striking other gunmen as they shoot at him and he falls from a window with another man when a rocket is shot at the building blowing it up and throwing heavy rubble on top of the two men on the ground. A man climbs out of a building and runs away as guards shoot at him, he scales walls and runs across rooftops and runs very fast into a large storm moving toward him where he encounters a snarling wolf; the man’s eyes glow and the animal leaves without attacking. A teen boy climbs on the roof of a building, it breaks out from under his feet and he falls to the ground but lands unharmed. A stampede of buffalo charges toward a teen boy, he covers his head and one buffalo stops in front of him while the rest run around him. A man scales a high-rise building and enters an apartment. A severed finger is shown in a small box. A woman gives an injured man a potion and punches him hard in the chest to revive him. A man puts on a vest with a lion mane collar.
► A teen hears gunshots in the distance; he runs to investigate and finds many buffalo dead with their horns removed (we see dead animals with bloody wounds on the heads). A man holds a gun on a man and says, “He deserves to die.” A man shoots an animal and we see blood on its body as it dies; the man smears a bit of the animal’s blood on his teenage son’s forehead. A man tells his father that if he lets his son die, blood will be on his hands. A man tells his teen son that he got him something and points to a lion’s head mounted on a wall. A teen makes a spear and throws it; we see it strike a tree in the distance. A man appears to shape-shift to look like another man. A teen boy runs keeping pace with an animal, jumps a ravine and climbs a tree to the top. A man catches a fish with his bare hands and uses a knife to clean it. A dog growls aggressively when a man tries to take a ball away from it; the dog then yelps and drops the ball when the man yells at it.
► A man describes an encounter with kidnappers and says, “There was some screaming.” A man threatens to remove another man’s eyeballs and cut someone’s throat. A man talks about something being a perfect predator. A man orders, “Bring me his body or don’t come back.” A man tells his teenage son not to look so weak when he seems afraid during an animal hunt. A man tells his teen son that being in America is making him soft.
► A man yells at his son, shoves him and calls him names. A teen boy yells at his father and storms out of the house. A man picks up his two teenage boys from a boarding school and tells them that their mother committed suicide; he says that she was weak and sick in the mind. A woman tells a teenage girl that there will be a terrible accident and gives her a potion to use to save someone. A woman slaps a man in the face (please see the Sex/Nudity category for more details). A man jumps out from behind a wall and grabs another man startling him (to wish him a happy birthday).
► Many inmates in a prison clamber and yell when new inmates arrive. A prison transport stops in an isolated area and the occupants are told to go relieve themselves; one man stands outside and a guard tells him that he would never survive if he ran and that the “wolves would eat you alive.” A man enters a prison cell and another man tells him, “I hate roommates.”

Kraven the Hunter LANGUAGE 5

 – About 8 F-words and its derivatives, 8 scatological terms, 6 anatomical terms, 6 mild obscenities, name-calling (weak, fool, imbecilic, crazy, soft, gangster, evil, coward, criminal, despicable, bastard son, you’re an accident, lunatic), exclamations (I swear), 1 religious profanity (GD), 2 religious exclamations (e.g. Jesus). | profanity glossary |

Kraven the Hunter SUBSTANCE USE

 – A teen girl finds a wounded teen boy and gives him a potion, and people talk about a toxin coming from “rosary peas.” A man drinks from a bottle of liquor, people drink liquor in a club, two men drink glasses of wine in a club, and three men drink liquor.

Kraven the Hunter DISCUSSION TOPICS

 – Myths, potions, magic, suicide, mental illness, legends, justice, courage, power lust, assassins, mystics, karma.

Kraven the Hunter MESSAGE

 – Sometimes the law can get in the way of justice.