I am usually pretty confident, with movies from this era, that there will be very little to concern me by way of sex or violence compared to what would be considered (not by me) acceptable in a movie today. It will probably depend on your child but my seven-year-old and nine-year-old girls are used to being around the boys' (12 and 10) video games. They all thoroughly enjoyed this movie, especially the 12-year-old who has been studying the Romans at school, and the rest of them learnt a lot about the Romans, gladiators and slavery.