COLD PURSUIT

(HHH, FR, Ho, LLL, VVV, SS, N, AA, DDD, MMM):

Very strong humanist worldview where man is the greatest power, and it is man’s duty to determine right and wrong and to punish accordingly, major theme of “an eye for an eye” in order to have supposed justice, minor notes of false religion as men perform a type of ritual around the death site of a man lighting sage and singing a chant of sorts in another language, there is also a short scene where a man is placing incense and other items on what can be assumed to be a Buddhist shrine, light homosexual elements with a gay relationship shown that spurs a revenge of sorts, but seems to be the only reason behind the relationship in the storyline;

At least 31 obscenities (including a couple “f” words), five GDs, woman gives another character the middle finger in a sly manner, one use of a racial slur, a dog is shown relieving itself outside;

Extreme violence and blood throughout the entire movie, man is beaten and injected with a needle, many scenes punching with blood spewing out and killing with bare hands such as choking, after a character kills men, he disposes of the body by throwing it over a waterfall wrapped in chicken wire, countless deaths by gun shots including directly to the head, a man’s head is sent as a peace offering in a box, one major shootout scene with a lot of death and blood, a father encourages his son to hit a bully back using “Lord of the Flies” as a reference for how he should live his life, a man is hung from a traffic sign after being killed;

No explicit scenes including sexual content, but many comments and lines of dialogue containing very raunchy content, a man says his dad “banged anything with a hole,” a man tells a story about oral sex, a man tells how he pays hotel maids $20 for sexual acts, a few disrespectful comments toward women in general;

A few examples of upper male nudity shown in a towel, one scene takes place in a club where there are scantily clad female dancers;

Alcohol used throughout the movie, but no apparent drunkenness, a man drinks liquor straight from a bottle before attempting suicide, club scene where everyone shown is drinking alcohol, brothers have a beer together, man sits in a bar drinking alone;

Cigarette smoking and a high amount of drug use, characters are shown throughout smoking cigarettes, Laura Dern’s character is almost always smoking marijuana, the entire story is based on a drug cartel who deals in cocaine, a man says his dad gave him half a grapefruit and three lines of cocaine for breakfast, teenagers are smoking marijuana on the street, and a policeman comments that it’s “just weed” when another officer wants to ticket them; and,

Strong levels of miscellaneous immorality throughout this movie, many examples of dysfunctional families, a father is extremely hard on his son and teaches him backwards values, father teaches his son that the novel LORD OF THE FLIES will teach him everything he needs to know about life, parents are divorced and share custody of their son but are constantly fighting over how to raise him, a marriage begins to fall apart after the death of the couple’s son, and one day the wife leaves without any word or notice, man begins to attempt suicide by placing a shotgun in his mouth but is stopped, many racist and offensive comments referring to Native Americans, a few examples of kidnapping, the “good guy” kidnaps the son of the antagonist, but the son actually begins to bond with him and goes along with the kidnapping, major themes of revenge throughout the movie, examples of greed, stealing and moral relativism.