X-men: Apocalypse MA15+ with the consumer advice “Strong science fiction violence and themes, has been re-classified on appeal as M “frequent action violence and infrequent coarse language".
The decision of the Classification Board, on 11 May 2016, to classify the film MA15+ was challenged by the Australian distributor, Twentieth Century Fox Films, on 12 May, with the appeal heard by the Classification Review Board on 17 May.
Read the ACCM Media Release about this decision
Read the ACCM review of this film on this website
Read the report on the original Classification Board decision
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