A man claiming to be from the future takes the patrons of an iconic Los Angeles diner hostage in search of unlikely recruits in a quest to save the world.
character who felt neglected by their mother forgives her in the end, framed positively. this is a trigger for me and this was OK, wouldn't describe the mother as an abuser
Arguably yes. The movie prominently features a piece of AI technology similar to VR that convinces people virtual reality is better than living in their current reality. The system has a hypnotic/zombie effect on some, an addictive effect on others, and definitely challenges perceptions of reality.
the main character who goes on to take people hostage at the beginning of the movie was treated in a way that caused him to feel neglected as a child (putting it simply to avoid spoilers)
in the opening sequence in the diner where everyone inside is under a bomb threat, the main character suddenly kisses a woman he purports to know while she does not recognise him. the moment passes quickly and goes unaddressed
Yes, at the climax of the final battle, characters are heavily restrained by many cables (looking like electronic tentacles). Intense and likely triggering for some.
in the opening sequence in the diner where everyone inside is under a bomb threat, the main character suddenly kisses a woman he purports to know while she does not recognise him. the moment passes quickly and goes unaddressed
Cartoonish violence throughout, with mild gore escalating as it progresses. Most is played for laughs (characters pick up a severed leg from a pile of dead body parts to use as a weapon).
One character has frequent nose bleeds that are prominently featured in the plot.
Yes, but it's generally handled in a smart and satirical way. There's a major subplot involving school shootings, especially prevalent in two Black Mirror style segments in which school shootings have become so common in the future that teens and adults brush it off and act like it's just any other day. This is meant to satirize how some people these days are numb to them or overly passive about them when they do happen.
During the initial school shooting sequence, we hear an alarm go off, a teacher says "eh, school shooting" as if it doesn't matter, and then it cuts to some teachers and students in a shelter. They're given the all clear and when they walk out there's no blood or bodies or anything.
A little later in the movie, we see a long flashback for another character who lost their son in that shooting. It shows them hyperventilating in their car and in silence we see some students leaving the school upset and see her run up to her son on a stretcher. No blood or gore is shown (he's under a blanket, only his arm is seen). Then some moms give her a card for a business where she can go to clone her son, but while they get the details of his body correct, his personality is off (they give her a subset of choices to pick from for personality traits), robotic, and unlike him. She gets invited to a support group for parents who've had to do this and many parents joke about how they've chosen to mess with their child's personality for fun, and some say they've had to clone their kids 3+ times because they keep losing them to school shootings.
The humor is dark, but meant to be very satirical. At no point is there any violence, blood or gore shown in these scenes.
Yes, but it's generally handled in a smart and satirical way. There's a major subplot involving school shootings, especially prevalent in two Black Mirror style segment in which school shootings have become so common in the future that teens and adults brush it off and act like it's just any other day. This is meant to satirize how some people these days are numb to them or overly passive about them when they do happen.
During the initial school shooting sequence, we hear an alarm go off, a teacher says "eh, school shooting" as if it doesn't matter, and then it cuts to some teachers and students in a shelter. They're given the all clear and when they walk out there's no blood or bodies or anything.
A little later in the movie, we see a long flashback for another character who lost their son in that shooting. It shows them hyperventilating in their car and in silence we see some students leaving the school upset and see her run up to her son on a stretcher. No blood or gore is shown (he's under a blanket, only his arm is seen). Then some moms give her a card for a business where she can go to clone her son, but while they get the details of his body correct, his personality is off (they give her a subset of choices to pick from for personality traits), robotic, and unlike him. She gets invited to a support group for parents who've had to do this and many parents joke about how they've chosen to mess with their child's personality for fun, and some say they've had to clone their kids 3+ times because they keep losing them to school shootings.
The humor is dark, but meant to be very satirical. At no point is there any violence, blood or gore shown in these scenes.
Some police lights earlier in the movie, and a small bit as they go down some stairs, but most of it is toward the end, when the "tornado" forms. It lasts for about 5 minutes, maybe, and is mixed with scenes that don't have flashing. It's not strobing, and I think maybe it wasn't taking up the whole screen or wasn't going completely black in between flashes, but it was decently intense flickering/flashing.
No beastiality per se, but there are scenes that include graphic images of a creature's testicles and phallus (played for laughs), including a human character being showered by the creature's glitter semen (some of which goes in his mouth). Could be triggering or off-putting for some.
A running theme is criticizing society's general direction in light of technological advancements. A character questions whether or not they would even want to be born, given the state of things.
Multiple characters are hit by cars, usually as a fast "surprise" death. One is more graphically crushed by a car. Most violence is cartoonish/over-the-top.
Gun violence is a major theme of the movie. School shootings (implied/off screen) are so frequent/common, that some parents joke about how often they've lost kids to it. Some parents grieve, but the world basically brushes it off as an unavoidable fact of life. The humor is very dark.
Also, numerous characters die on screen from being shot (often excessive, cartoonish levels of bullets).