Four Against the Bank

Bank robbery, some gunshots. One lead character is an MMA fighter, resorts to violence or violent threats to get his way. One lead character is tied up while a character threatens to slice him into pieces, including cutting off his testicles. This tied-up character tries to escape by jumping out a window while tied up, falls on a landing below, shown injured. Lead characters talk of the violence they want to perpetrate on someone: talk of sticking tacks in his eyes, ripping off the hair on his testicles with packing tape. A lead characters fall off a chair he's standing on and can't move, later falls out of a window.

One lead character draws pencil sketches of his female co-workers in full-frontal nudity; when his supervisor sees one, he says the woman's pubic hair doesn't look like that in real life. One of the lead characters takes off his clothes and runs naked in a stadium where the pope is visiting; brief male nudity (buttocks). Frequent talk of sex; one lead character is having an affair with a married woman. References to, talk of masturbation.

Frequent profanity. "Motherf----r" used a few times. "F--k" regularly used. "S--t," "damn," "sucks," "crap," "ass," "balls," "a--hole." Slang terms for female genitalia. "Retarded." Middle-finger gesture.

Beer and whiskey drinking in a bar. Beer drinking in a "man cave." Wine and champagne drinking in a restaurant.

Parents need to know that Four Against the Bank (known as Vier gegen die Bank in German) is a 2016 German action-comedy in which four men who lost their savings to an underhanded banker get even by trying to rob the bank. The movie's in German with English subtitles. Viewers familiar with movies directed by Guy Ritchie and Quentin Tarrantino will see many similarities between this movie and their movies in terms of style and content. One of the lead characters draws nude sketches of his female co-workers; when his supervisor sees one of them, he says that the woman's pubic hair doesn't look like that in real life. This same lead character has a habit of nervously and unintentionally making creepy sexual remarks to women. Violence -- comedic pratfalls in some scenes, actual violence in others -- includes gun shots at a bank robbery, characters punched until they get knocked out, and a stolen van set on fire. One of the lead characters, an MMA fighter, frequently resorts to or threatens violence in order to get what he wants. Violent talk is heard: Characters mention wanting to stick tacks in someone's eyes and to slice the person into tiny pieces, including his testicles. Profanity is heard throughout, including frequent use of "f--k" and variations. There's also some drinking, as well as frequent sex and masturbation references.

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