Yet few examples of Hollywood violence are so slapstick. Often, what we're given is realistic violence combined with unrealistic emotional reactions. There's a moment in the film in which Julia Roberts' character loses someone to her that is near and dear. Death becomes something as disposable as the remains of a drive-through dinner. But the overwrought, implausible style in which the film's violence is presented is itself comical.
People die, but their ends are little more than comic-book exits.
Along the way, it becomes ever easier to detach ourselves from death. Perhaps not from seeing one violent film, or a dozen. But again, that film's appeal lies in its very silliness. We gape at brains for dinner, and we laugh. If we were to see a realistic depiction of such atrocities, the sane among us would gag.