• positive elements: Jack is protective of Doreen and shows that he loves her by urging her to trust her mother and try to start the healing process by telling her about the trouble she’s in. He berates himself for allowing his life to spiral into crime and violence, and tells her she can do so much better than he. Of course, he’s not repentant about his actions, and makes no moves to put himself on a different path. He’s merely melancholy about the past.

• sexual content: Jack’s quest to avenge his brother leads him into the world of big-time porn. His nemesis, Cyrus, is an Internet porn king with a gaggle of girls at his side and a slew of ruined lives in his wake. Fast-cut images of online pornography flit across the screen. Jack watches a video of a rape (the audience’s view is obscured for most of the scene, but a few quick visuals get the point across harshly enough). In that same video two girls kiss and fleeting images imply that they strip down and have sex together. A lingering shot of Jack’s girlfriend focuses on her bra which is showing underneath an unbuttoned blouse. An atmosphere of dark sexual depravity clouds several scenes, which are shot inside an Internet porn "club." In the background, exotic dancers entertain the patrons.

• violent content: Frequent and grossly gratuitous. Jack fights with a host of "bad guys," killing several in the process. He tosses one man out an apartment window and to his death, smashing into the top of a parked car. He shoots another in the back. On and on the violence goes. Blood flows freely when Cyrus and Jack go at it near the end. Three or four lengthy car chases leave chaos behind. In one particularly grating scene, Jack uses psychological torture and physical assault to reduce a man into a slobbering, sobbing, shivering mass.

• crude or profane language: Nearly a hundred swear words collide amidst the violence. Many of them are f-words and s-words. Harsh, degrading sexual slang and anatomical references fly. Christ’s name is abused several times.

• drug and alcohol content: Revelers are seen snorting cocaine in one scene. In almost every scene somebody is smoking a cigarette. Pretty much anyone with more than 30 seconds of screen time lights up. And smoking isn’t just a stage prop here. Over and over again the cameras zoom in on glowing butts and curving lips, embracing and emphasizing the "mystique" and "coolness" of cigarettes. Alcohol is also prominent. It is implied that one woman is killed with a drug overdose when Jack finds her with a needle sticking out of her arm.