Hacksaw Ridge: parents' guide

Battles show limbs blown off, intestines spilling out, and soldiers bayoneted or burned alive. A Japanese officer's ritual suicide ends in an on-screen beheading, and Plugged In also reports a man hanging himself. As a boy, Doss nearly kills his brother with a brick.

No f-words. Plugged In counted seven s-words, along with ass, damn, hell, piss and crude slang for body parts. American soldiers repeatedly call the Japanese enemy Japs and Nips.

Doss and his fiancee kiss several times, and their wedding night is implied as they fall onto a bed out of frame. A recruit is made to train naked, showing his bare backside. Soldiers joke about condoms, venereal disease and a pinup magazine.

Doss's father, a traumatized World War I veteran, is an alcoholic who is drunk in most of his scenes and turns violent; he crushes a whiskey bottle and cuts his hand. Soldiers smoke, and Doss injects wounded men with morphine.

The Okinawa battle is long and relentless, with sudden ambushes, burning men screaming, rats on corpses and piles of mangled dead. Earlier, a drunk father brandishes a gun during a fight with his wife, and his son grabs it.