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Huh? By modern PG-13 action standards, the film is very violent. There's a scene about 15 minutes in where pulped brains fall out of the shattered skull of a skinned corpse, and you think this film is holding back? Without straying into the realms of horror/splatter, I'm not sure how much more violent this film could have been.
Not really sure what you mean by "dated" production style, either. The "dystopian future metropolis" setting has been done a lot in the last 30 years of science fiction, but given the Judge Dredd comics were canonical texts for ushering that trope into the genre it would be incongruous to dispense with it. I think the film's look does a nice job of rendering the sprawl, but as opposed to the rain-soaked neon-noir [sic] of Bladerunner and its imitators, the look is brighter, more open and more obviously grimey and cobbled together, blending in shades of post-apocalyptic desert imagery, which is fitting given the context. Mega City One is a glorified shanty town hammered together from "the ruins of the old world". To expect it to look sleek and shiny is completely missing the point.
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