Most certainly worse with the intended malice. All the more ironic that many critics and audiences didn’t catch on that the over-the-top violence was meant as a satire according to director Paul Verhoeven. In the peak of Arnold/Stallone/Van Damme we got this absurdist dystopian action flick. Similar occurred with his adaptation Starship Troopers.
Just posted this a bit ago:
“Sean Aloysius O’Brien… They fished his body out of the Allegheny river a week before the strike ended. Thirty two bullets he had in him. Or was it thirty four?” -Miles O’brien