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No. Despite being rated "15" (no persons admitted under 15 y/o), the version shown in British cinemas and released on DVD does not contain either the sound of the neckbreak or the shot of Hunt being kneecapped. It is the same as the PG-13 version shown in America.The "15" rating was probably due to the abundance of knives and martial arts in the film, two subjects the British Board of Film Classification object to.
For the assault on Bare Island, Ethan Hunt carries two guns: A Beretta 92F carried in a shoulder holster and a H & K USP carried in a holster by the small of his back. When the two motorcycles crash, Hunt's USP falls onto the beach. When Hunt and Ambrose start fighting, there is a close-up of Hunt's Beretta falling out of his holster. This is the gun Ambrose finds at the end of the film. Hunt uses the other gun, the USP.There are many viewers who maintain that this is a continuity mistake, and cite the fact that Hunt used TWO Berettas in the BioCyte shootout, not a Beretta and a USP. They say the gun Hunt fires at the end belongs to Ambrose, even though he was using a Browning BDA during the motorcycle chase. The decision to have Hunt use a different gun at the end was possibly taken to avoid confusion by having the two men fire the same model of gun.The shooting script states that the gun Hunt finds in the sand at the end of the film belongs to Hunt.
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