Parents Guide for
The Matrix (1999) More at IMDbPro »

One kissing and one dirty dancing scene in a nightclub. It's implied a man is naked, but we only see his bare torso. One brief shot of cleavage.

Lots and lots and lots of killings with high-tech machine guns, resulting in numerous, at times bloody bodies.

We see splattered gunshot wounds on the chests and on the backs of a few people. In several instances bullets seem to whiz by in slow motion and go thorough walls. A couple of people are shot in the face, with some blood gushing from their foreheads and oozing out of their mouths.

One body is charred and smoking from being torched by some sort of flamethrower.

There are a few violent & "medical" procedures -- drilling into heads, and uploading and downloading information through screws embedded into skulls (several people have a sort of an outlet on the base of their skulls into which they insert a plug).

One man gets zapped by a laser gun and we see his charred arm.

There are numerous fistfights, with lots of screaming, punching, kicking, slapping, karate chops and blood.

A few persons get their heads and bodies smashed against walls -- often the wall collapses.

A man's face gets distorted: his facial skin is tightened so much that he can't open his mouth). A big slithering centipede-like creature is dropped on a man's bare chest and digs into his belly button (we see it moving underneath his skin); shortly thereafter, the creature is sucked out of his navel into a tube (we see some blood).

A man has numerous wires and needles piercing his body.

A woman throws a knife into a man's forehead, but we don't see any blood.

One man enters another man's body and the body explodes and disintegrates.

We see many close-ups of gashes on faces and on bodies, numerous cuts and burns, bloody lips and blackened eyes.

A helicopter crashes into the side of a building, but no one is killed.

One person seems to get run over by a speeding train.

We see rows and columns upon rows and columns of human bodies lying in pods, with wires connected to their bodies.

An obscene finger gesture, several anatomical references, several scatological references, lots of mild obscenities and numerous insults.

A man wakes up from being hooked up to the Matrix. Many wires and tubes are attached to him, and he is covered in slime.

Some may find it troubling that many police officers are shot and killed by main characters in this movie.

Some human characters are shown turning into digital-like code and disappearing. Other are shown turning into other characters.

The "bug" scene and the extraction of it might be disturbing to some.