| violence |
The first half of the movie is very light on violence or action, apart from a city destruction scene and a car chase. In the second half, there is frequent violence involving gunfire, explosions, superpowers and hand to hand combat yet little to no blood is shown throughout the film. There are several implied deaths, but very few are shown.
The opening scene shows a child's parents being murdered in front of him. Although nothing is really shown, in terms of bullet impact, the scene may be too emotional/distressing for some. The father goes to punch the attacker, but is shot off-screen and then the mother wrestles with the attacker before being shot, again, off-screen. You see the parents' faces as they die.
A scene of mass destruction is shown as several dozen buildings collapse and explode, implying thousands or tens-of-thousands of deaths, but not a single one is shown on-screen. A man is found with his legs crushed beneath a large object, implying they are crushed, but aside from him not being able to feel them and some amount of blood there's not much more, in terms of injury detail, to that scene.
A man is found with a bat-symbol, burnt onto his chest like he's been branded. Photos show a man who's been killed in prison as result of his "bat-branding". The burn mark is shown again, briefly. This scene may frightened some viewers.
In a dream/vision, a group of soldiers shoot another group of men with no blood. Then a vigilante fights the soldiers, punching and shooting them, before snapping a man's neck, which is shown and heard. Later on in the dream/vision, a superhero walks towards the restrained vigilante who is now tied up before he shoots lasers at the two men next to the vigilante, killing them off-screen.Their muffled screams and the splatter of their guts is heard. The superhero shoves his hand into the vigilante.
At a senate hearing, a bomb in a man's wheelchair goes off, implying that everyone in the room, except the superhero, who appears to suffer no injury from the explosion, is killed.
The extended cut has added scenes of violence and is bloodier. This added violence got this cut an R. |
| frightening |
There is a scene where a child's parents are murdered in front of him.
Batman may come across as frightening to young children. Especially, in a scene early on when two policemen go upstairs to investigate the screams of a man being beaten up by Batman as the scene is almost like a horror movie. Batman is shown hiding in the shadows and eerily climbs across the ceiling to escape.
Batman's dream sequence where he dreams of how the world will be if it will be under the rule of Superman, there are Batman's fighting scenes with Superman's private army soldiers, also, at the end of the fights, A flying demonic creature is approaching him and abducts him.
Superman dies, which may be upsetting for some; although it's implied at the end that he is still alive
Extended: A man that has been branded by the Batman has gone to prison and is killed intensely by an inmate who stabs him multiple times in the lower torso. Young children will likely be frightened.
The film has a rather dark and depressing tone to it. |
