Avengers: Infinity War
NZ release: 25 April 2018
Violence Rated on: 24 April 2018
What’s it about?
The Avengers and their allies must do whatever it takes be willing to stop the powerful Thanos from collecting all six infinity stones, which would allow him to bring devastation and ruin to the entire universe.
The facts
- Directed by Anthony Russo and Joe Russo (who together directed Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame).
- Starring Robert Downey Jr., Josh Brolin, Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Benedict Cumberbatch , Tom Holland, Elizabeth Olsen, Karen Gillan, and Paul Bettany.
- English language
- Runtime: 149 minutes
- One of the top 10 highest-grossing films of all time with over $2 billion in box office
- 19th release in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Why did it get this rating?
This film game was cross-rated by the Film and Video Labelling Body. You can find out more about cross-rating here.
Violence
This film involves prolonged scenes of fantasy violence and action sequences with lots of punches, kicks, stabbings, choking, and heavy hitting seen. However, the fighting is highly stylised, and the heroes frequently add humour to scenes. The strongest scenes of violence include:
- A character is strangled and his neck is snapped.
- A character is thrown from a cliff. We see her falling and then her lying dead on a pool of blood on the ground.
- In a flashback scene, we see a mass genocide taking place, in which innocent alien civilians are seen executed by a firing squad in front of some of their family members.
- An evil character is lifted into the air with magic powers and split in half by a large vehicle, with blue blood splattering everywhere.
Coarse language
There are a few uses of the words “asshole” and “shit,” with one instance where a character says “motherf...” before they are cut off.
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