Sentinelle

A little boy blows himself up, killing surrounding French soldiers with him. Throughout the film there are many bloody fights, deadly shoot-outs, and people dying in brutal ways. Men are punched, kicked, stabbed, shot, and thrown. In one fight scene in a bathroom, a woman beats up four men, smashing their heads into urinals, doors, and mirrors. Later, the same woman gets in a fight with another woman. They punch, kick, hit, and cut each other, one of them suffering a horrible slash to her inner cheek. Eventually, she dies by backbreaker. A woman infiltrates an enemy compound and kills many people, some by stabbing them in their necks. She kicks one man off a ledge and his head cracks against a pipe on the way down. Another man stabs the woman, but she shoots him in the leg and then right through the eye, gruesomely. In a different scene, a woman takes a fork and stabs a man in the neck many times. A bound woman is held under water repeatedly. Another woman is punched in the face by a drunk man. There's also a brief discussion of a young woman being beaten and raped. Later she's shown in the hospital with a badly bruised face. There are also chase scenes, scenes of people in peril, and many tense moments.

Two women dance together and kiss romantically. Later they have sex and both are naked. No genitalia directly shown. Bare breasts are often zoomed in on while both women use their mouths and hands on them. Women are shown naked in the police locker room showers and in showers at home.

Language includes few instances of "s--t" and "bitch."

Adults drink alcohol and smoke cigarettes at clubs and at bars. A woman shows signs of addiction to opiate pills, sedatives, and beta blockers. Many scenes show her taking pills. One superior tells her to stop being "stoned at work." The same woman also meets a drug dealer to score oxycontin and codeine pills.

Parents need to know that Sentinelle is a French action revenge thriller about a French ex-soldier who is transferred into a life of police patrol for Operation Sentinelle, the military presence instituted after the 2015 Paris attacks. Expect lots of violence, blood, and gory kills during main character Klara's (Olga Kurylenko) path of vengeance. Enemies get punched, kicked, slapped, thrown, stomped on, stabbed, shot, and the camera doesn't cut away. A boy blows himself up in the beginning of the film. The story also revolves around a young woman's rape and physical assault. There's also a fair amount of female nudity in showers and during a sex scene. Klara is also addicted to pain killers and opiates in pill form and is shown popping pills often. Language includes sparse usage of "s--t" and "bitch."

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