This is a great film for a great director and it stars one of the greatest actors of all time. I think that this film is like an 11+ the swearing is not a problem there is one F-Word...maybe 2, I saw it a year ago. But anyway, you hear worst language in a parking lot. The violence is infrequent but quite graphic, the climax shows a very realistic shooting victem (missing an eye, and covered in fresh blood) which is only made so much more disturbing by the character's child's tramatized (and maybe tramatizing) screams at their parent dead body, I don't belive in cencorship but I would say if you or you're child has lost a parent you might want to avoid the movie, the great perfomances make it all much more scary. The sexual themes are not a problem, a quick veiw of a breast and implied sex. The film may not be good for a few sensitive kids or teens but it such a good film, that any aspiring film maker should see it.