Parents Guide for
The Equalizer (2014) More at IMDbPro »

Several key plot points center around a prostitution ring.

One short scene shows a website page with woman posing. Some are scantly dressed.

Shower scene where a man is naked, you see his upper torso but his privates are obscured by steam on the shower door.

There are implications of sexual activity.

A young woman is clearly a part of a Russian Escort Service.

A young woman is shown getting into the limousine with an older man, suggesting sexual services.

A lot of violence and blood.

It is implied that a girl is beaten by a Russian gangster; her face is bruised.

A man fires a nail gun at another man in slow motion, we see the nails hit the man and we see blood coming out of his mouth.

A man chokes another man with barbed wire and we see a pool of blood forming on the floor.

A man slams a shot glass into someone's eye and a corkscrew into someone's mouth.

A man strangles a woman to death. This is disturbing.

We presume that the man who robbed the mart is killed by the main character with a big hammer.

A man drills another man in the head. We don't see graphically but we see blood on the drill.

A man is being electrocuted in the flooded sink.

A man is stabbed through the neck with a garden tool, we see the blade protruding from his neck.

There are many other scenes of similar nature, and at least one graphic verbal description of the same.

4 "Goddamn."

100 instances of the 'f' word, and 17 of the 's' word. Also, 1 of "cock," 2 of "pussy," 2 of "ass," 2 of "hell," and 3 of "bitch."

A tall amber liquid-medication bottle is shown on a table in an apartment where a man makes a fake airsickness medication label for a prescription pill bottle, and three large IV bags of clear liquid hang from a metal stand in an ICU cubicle.

A beer sign hangs over the door of a market.

Two men drink vodka at a table in a bar.

Five men drink double shots of vodka from whiskey glasses in a back room of a bar.

Two men sit with glasses of wine in a bar and one man drinks.

A man smokes a cigarette at home in the dark.

There are scenes that are very violent and graphic.

The scene where a man strangles a woman to death is very disturbing and upsetting.