The movie contains a scene in a brothel where many women reveal cleavage. Houdini is seen cheating on his wife. We see multiple flashbacks of sexual scenes.

In part 2 Houdini is seduced by a woman who is wearing only a coat, taking it off you see a flash of her breasts, no nipple is shown.

Houdini and a woman have sex on a bed; the woman's legs are spread and Houdini violently thrusts as they are at climax. Their private regions are obscured by bedsheets and the scene is muted and underscored.

A few scenes where in a dream or memory people are shot in the head. Houdini is punched in the stomach multiple times. You see inside his body.

Houdini's voice over at the beginning includes, "Hell of a way to make a living."

A police officer exclaims, "I'll be damned" after seeing Houdini free himself from handcuffs.

Houdini's wife asks, "Are you out of your damned mind."

Houdini's childhood mentor yelled at him saying, "I don't want to hear anything more about that damned bullet."

In the brothel scene many people are drinking. Houdini's wife takes up smoking marijuana. Smoking cigarettes is seen frequently. Houdini gets drunk and throws a mad fit because he thinks his wife kissed another man.

There are many intense moments when you think Houdini may not live because of the stunts he does.