The waitresses brothers risk death to save their sister. The opening credit sequence features a nude male and female, obviously engaged in sex, but it s shot in a highly stylized way that makes it difficult to tell just what s going on. Shaft is referred to as a sex machine. He engages in sexual banter with a bartender using crude euphemisms. Uncle John is seen leaving a restaurant with a beautiful woman on each arm.
Women wear scanty underwear and breathing masks as they work in a drug lab.
The mildest is a vicious punch in the face. A lot of gun play, with splattering brains and blood. Drug lord Hernandez s favorite weapon is an ice pick, and he taunts a hostage by poking at her neck with it. A man is thrown out of an upper story window with said ice pick jammed into his chest. Hernandez later impales a man s hand with the pick.