Why is “Heads of State” rated PG-13? The MPAA rating has been assigned for “sequences of strong violence/action, language and some smoking.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes a kiss between a man and a woman, several sexually suggestive conversations, several scenes containing gore (including a man pouring boiling water on another man’s face and a man being shot through the shoulder with a harpoon gun), many explosions and gun fights resulting in bloody wounds and death, several arguments and some strong language. Read our parents’ guide below for details on sexual content, violence & strong language.

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When the lives of the sitting British Prime Minister (Idris Elba) and the President of the US (John Cena) are threatened by nefarious forces, they must overcome their differences in order to survive and fight against a plot that threatens global politics and stability. Also with Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Carla Gugino and Jack Quaid. Directed by Ilya Naishuller. Several lines of dialogue are spoken in Russian with translation. [Running Time: 1:56]

Heads of State SEX/NUDITY 3

 – A woman kisses a man while he is driving during a car chase and they both smile. A man and woman accidentally touch hands and react awkwardly; it is implied they used to date each other. A man tries to impress and flirt with women at a beachside bar, but they scoff and walk away, telling him, “Nice try.”
► While hiding in a truck with sheep, a sheep’s udders repeatedly smack a man in the face and other people tease him about this later, referring to “sucking on sheep nipples” and calling him a “sheep nipple aficionado”; he becomes defensive.
► During a press conference, a reporter asks the US President, a former actor, if he will reprise a movie role; he replies that he promised his wife that he would only don the movie character’s uniform again “In the White House boudoir” or at a Correspondents Dinner and the reporters “… aren’t invited to the first one.” A man tells another man that an unmarried political leader makes people uncomfortable, saying that it makes people imagine “Eyes Wide Shut” parties and that the leader is “into weird [scatological term deleted].” A reporter asks a man a question about his ex-girlfriend. A man teases another man for being single and tells a crowd of reporters, “We need to get him his own season of ‘The Bachelor.'” Arriving at a dilapidated safe house, a man comments that its owner “didn’t have incredibly sexy taste in hideouts.” A man says that another man has “big [anatomical terms]” for launching an attack against him. A man asks another man about a relationship that broke up, “Were you running away from love?” and he says that he wanted to enter politics to build a better world for him and the woman to grow old together. A man discusses with another man how to text a woman he is interested in; he ultimately tells her that he misses her and hopes to see her soon. A woman describes a previous relationship as “perfectly imperfect” and a person “loving everything about who you are.”
► Women wear low-cut tops with visible cleavage in several scenes. Several women wear bikinis at a beach (cleavage, bare abdomens, backs and legs to the hips are shown). We see statues of a baby Cupid with visible genitalia in a few scenes.

Heads of State VIOLENCE/GORE 6

 – A man smashes a kettle of hot water into another man’s face and he collapses as the man pours the boiling water onto his face (we see his skin begin to burn and lesion); the attacker continues to smash the kettle into the man’s head and it is implied that he forces the spout into his mouth (the injured man is off-screen and we do not see the resulting injury). A man grapples with a woman from behind and they fall down the stairs; the man’s neck breaks against the corner of the stairs (we hear a snap) and he appears dead, his eyes filled with blood.
► Gunfire is exchanged in several scenes with people loading guns and firing at each other; many people are struck by bullets and thrown backward, some screaming in pain and we see bloodstains through clothes and occasional blood splatter. A man uses cameras to track enemies and shoot them through a wall, throwing them back and killing them.
► A man is shot with a harpoon gun and we see the harpoon go through his shoulder, sticking through to the other side. A man is stabbed in the leg with a knife and screams in pain; we see the knife sticking out of his leg until a woman removes it. A woman stabs a man with a broken shard of pottery; we see it sticking out of his abdomen until he removes it. People fight with knives and a man attacks and stabs several other men, in the stomach, back and head; we hear some of them scream and we see blood seep through clothes and one man leaves bloody fingerprints on the attacker’s jacket. A door is blown off its hinges after an explosion and thrown into a crowd of armed people; it smashes into a man and impales him against a cabinet (no visible blood or gore).
► Two people are held at gunpoint in a car and fight the gunman, punching and kicking and trying to get the gun away until the driver is shot in the back of the head and collapses; a man is thrown out of the car and smashed by another car (we do not see blood or gore). A man is shot under a bulletproof vest and collapses (we see blood coming from his mouth); he is cornered by other people as he attempts to set off a grenade and a woman presses a gun against his head and we hear a gunshot off-screen. A fatally injured man (with bullet wound to the stomach) delivers information to other people while he struggles to breathe and succumbs to his injuries. A woman is shot in the chest; she is thrown back several feet and we see many bloody holes in her bulletproof jacket and clothes as she gasps and struggles.
► Terrorists attack a diplomatic event where many politicians are gathered; a woman is shot in the chest and we see blood splatter from the wound and her mouth, and she collapses causing others to panic, scream and flee and several others are struck by bullets and collapse. A sniper shoots a man through a window; the man is hit in the chest and we see blood splatter across curtains. Two men with silenced pistols shoot each other; one is killed and one is injured (we see bloodstains through clothes).
► A plane is hit by missiles, it loses several engines, and several walls are blown out of the plane; passengers scream and panic, trying to hold on and slamming into walls, one person is sucked out of the plane, and a missile hits the cockpit and we hear the pilots scream, and then see an explosion. A plane with many passengers is attacked by another plane and the pilots of the first plane warn the other plane that they “will be fired upon” if they do not leave the restricted airspace; they shoot automatic weapons and missiles at each other. A man helps two other men into the only two parachutes on a crashing plane; the men survive and we later see the burnt wreckage of the plane, implying that all the other passengers on the plane died. A man throws a statue at a helicopter and it is caught in the blades causing the helicopter to crash and explode (the people inside are implied to have been killed).
► People begin shooting at a car; the driver jumps out and the car crashes into the people, pinning one of them against a garage door at high speed. During a car chase, people in cars fire guns at each other while driving at high speeds; people are struck by bullets (some blood spurts) and we see bullet holes in cars, several cars crash and explode and it is implied that the people inside were killed. A man driving an ambulance jumps onto another moving car; the ambulance crashes, flips, and explodes. A car drives over a balcony and falls several stories before crashing. A car is engulfed in flames but emerges with its passengers alive. Several people fight in a helicopter in flight and they struggle over weapons; one man shoots another and pushes a third out of the helicopter (he screams as he falls).
► A private militia breaks down doors and charge into houses, firing guns and throwing grenades, and setting off C4 explosives; several militia members are shot, thrown down stairs, and caught in explosions, and one man on a zip line is struck with a flare; it embeds in his helmet and he falls several stories, crashing onto another man below him. A helicopter launches grappling hooks at a storage container and begins to drag it out of a building, several floors up, with two people trapped inside; the storage container ends up dangling in the air and the people struggle not to fall through the open door.
► A woman attacks several men, punching one in the face, smashing a glass, and threatening another with a taser. A police officer stops a woman on a motorcycle and she steals the police car, having handcuffed the officer to her motorcycle on the side of the road. People exchange punches and kicks in several scenes, smashing each other into walls and cars; a man is shoved into a car window, which shatters, and a man is thrown into a wooden fence, which breaks. A man punches another man in the groin and he doubles over in pain. During a fight, a man is punched in the face and his tooth is knocked out (we see the bloody gum) and he screams, “You’re dead!” at the man who hit him. A man’s hand is smashed in a car door and he screams (there’s no visible injury). A woman jumps on a man who is rappelling down a cable and he drops; they continue to fight on the ground, trading punches and kicks and striking each other with objects, including a vase. A man rips down a lamppost and attacks other men with the metal pole.
► Two men with parachutes jump from a crashing plane; they engage the chutes and one tumbles on the ground and the other crashes into branches and gets stuck on a tree (we see his face is scratched and bloody), and a man helps him down; he screams when he crashes several feet to the ground (no injuries are seen). Three people jump from a moving train and tumble down a hill (they appear without serious injuries later). Two people drop from a storage container being carried by a helicopter, falling several feet onto a rooftop; they tumble and crash into a pigeon coop but are uninjured.
► A man accidentally sets off a grenade in a large bag of grenades; he throws the bag at other people and they are thrown back in a large explosion. A bottle of liquor breaks against a man during a fight and a lit cigarette sets him on fire; he screams and jumps into a water trough (he emerges with singed clothes but otherwise uninjured). During several film clips, a man fires two automatic weapons and screams over the sound of gunfire.
► A man looks on as a large building is engulfed in flames with tears in his eyes and it is implied that his son was killed in the fire. A woman fires a shotgun in the air to break up a fight; she shouts at a group of men to get away and they run. Civilians scream and run from gunfights and car chases in several scenes, narrowly dodging being injured. A man is caught in a large explosion and presumed dead; a man and a woman watching react in horror and grief. A woman sees a news report about the crash of a plane her husband was on; it is reported that he is presumed dead and she cries. During a film clip, a man stands beside a gravestone with a young boy (it is implied that the boy’s mother has died); the man says, “You made your mom proud.”
► People make verbal threats of violence in many scenes; a man says that their enemies should be afraid because “we will destroy them,” and a man shouts, “They die because I say they die.” A man threatens another man in a sling with a gun and he appears afraid. A man tells another man that he could rip a tree out of the ground and beat him to death with it; the other man tells him to go ahead, gesturing at a tree, and the first man grumbles, “You picked the biggest tree,” and walks away. People refer to a covert operation that went poorly, in which seven operatives were killed and one went missing, presumed dead. Several people discuss terrorist attacks, including the bombing of a NATO facility.
► Bloody corpses (bloodstains through clothes, no wounds visible) are shown in several scenes. We see photographs of explosions and buildings on fire, as well as bloody corpses. A man throws bags of blood from a car onto another car’s windshield; the blood bags explode, covering the windshield and causing the driver to crash. People in an Italian street throw tomatoes at each other during La Tomatina, a yearly food fighting festival; people are hit in the face with tomatoes and are covered in tomato pulp and juice.
► A man describes being shot in the head and surviving because it struck the metal plate in his head; he knocks on his head and we hear a metal reverberation. A man uses a large gun to shoot several statues; we see a bullet break through the head of one statue. A woman passes through a military checkpoint while hiding two men in her truck; soldiers with guns examine her papers and ask her questions. A person breaks a car window and people hotwire cars in a few scenes.

Heads of State LANGUAGE 4

 – About 26 scatological terms, 6 anatomical terms, 16 mild obscenities, name-calling (nutter, half-witted cretins, son of the devil), exclamations (geez), 8 religious profanities (GD), 6 religious exclamations (e.g. God knows, dear God, eyes of God, God, Christ sakes). | profanity glossary |

Heads of State SUBSTANCE USE

 – People drink beer and liquor in several scenes.

Heads of State DISCUSSION TOPICS

 – Patriotism, globalism versus isolationism, terrorism, NATO, political violence, revenge, grief, death of loved ones, teamwork, sacrifice, rekindling romance.

Heads of State MESSAGE

 – NATO and alliances between democratic states are a very good thing and guarantee global peace.