Thinking about seeing this movie over the weekend, but I was wondering how graphic it is.. I have heard that they show a beheading and that really does not sound like anything I'm interested in seeing.. I have nothing against fake violence, but real violence (even in an appropiate context) does not interest me.. any thoughts?

The beheading is shown from pretty far away, and the video isn't crystal clear. Of course, you can see what's happening, but it's not very graphic at all. Still a bit disturbing, however.

The beheading is not graphic, but there is other graphic footage later on, including a badly wounded child and a dead baby.

There's NOTHING in the movie (except possibly the beheading...which is so far away you can't really see anything graphic) that the evening news wouldn't show.

I've never seen that stuff on my local news. It kind of bugs me when people say that because one of the great things about F911 is that it shows a lot of things you wouldn't usually see by just watching your evening news.

Edit to add: Anyways, only a few parts in the movie made me cringe... nothing too outrageous, but it is a little creepy (the beheading).

I understand, it's real, but to get an R rating when you see so much worse in horror movies is beyond me.
The violence is brief but the reasons for showing it are to make a point about war and I think he is pretty successful at doing that.

But those horror movies are rated R as well.

I would say it's VERY graphic myself. It's far more harrowing when it's real people and not some cgi effect. Worse still that most of the violence shown is against children, and having a little kid myself I know I could barely make it through those scenes. Fortunately it's just a few minutes of the movie.

It isnt much... A childs arm is severly skinned and destroyed, another child is dead and burned in his fathers arms, the beheading, and some other dead boies laying around. Its not the worst I have seen but is more graphic than anything they show on the news that I have seen. Its about maybe 5 minutes of th emovie if that.

as for the be-heading....it was shot from so far away i didn't even see it.

The thing that was bad about the beheading is the executioner needed two tries to get the head off.

There was also the truck bed full of bodies, and one guy shows a dead kid.

Another thing that was graphic was the Fallujah scene, where the two soldiers get strung up on the bridge. They didn't even look human any more.

Couldn't even see the beheading, either.
Other footage was more disturbing, especially showing the attitude of some of the soldiers in Iraq and the indifference to the murdering of innocents.

wouldn't have noticed it was a beheading except the caption was there. the most disturbing scene in my opinion was either that boy getting his head stictched together or the one with all the skin on his arm blown off

The scenes described are all pretty powerful but they only take up a few second each.