The theatrical cut is rated PG-13, while the Director's Cut is rated R.
One Of The Darkest Marvel Movies.
Some of these scenes (mainly the more violent ones, are only in the directors cut version)
A group of kids bully a kid by pushing him down.
Young Matt spots his father roughing up some guy in an alley (for his boss). Matt then runs off, only to have toxic chemicals spill onto his face (and blind him) when a truck nearly hits him but instead pierces some canisters that spill the liquid.
There is a boxing match. Some blood.
A man is beaten to death in front of his son. Not too graphic but upsetting.
We see a man pull his own tooth out with his fingers and spit blood.
A man is stabbed in the neck with a shuriken (bit bloody)
A man has a knife thrown in his forehead (bloody)
A man has pencils sticking out of his throat (bloody)
A man hits a man in the face with a cane (getting blood on his cane). Then he strangles and breaks the neck of another man.
An old lady chokes to death on a peanut.
A man is shot through both hands and is thrown out a window (he lives).
There are several highly stylized martial arts-type fights with hands, feet, and weapons (sometimes drawing blood, causing tremendous amounts of property damage, and ending in grievous bodily harm or gruesome death). Weapons include staffs, throwing stars and similar devices, wire for garotting, and sai. Some characters use guns.
In the director's cut a woman is shot in the back.
A man's knees are broken or dislocated when he gets kicked in the knees from ground level (a very painfully depicted scene, however, his legs are not shown to be twisted backwards but rather he falls to his knees crying out in pain)