Starship Troopers (1997) movie poster

Starship Troopers (1997)

"A new kind of enemy. A new kind of war."
ThumbScore
👍 92%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 62%
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Director
Runtime
2h 9m
Rated
R
Country
United States of America
Language
English
TMDB Rating
7.1/10 (5,374 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
72%
Metacritic
52

Cast

Casper Van Dien as Johnny D. Rico · 64% avg
Dina Meyer as Dizzy Flores · 70% avg
Denise Richards as Carmen Ibañez · 68% avg
Jake Busey as Private Ace Levy · 70% avg
Neil Patrick Harris as Colonel Carl Jenkins · 71% avg
Clancy Brown as Career Sergeant Zim · 70% avg
Michael Ironside as Lieutenant Jean Rasczak · 71% avg
Patrick Muldoon as Zander Barcalow · 66% avg

Is Starship Troopers good?

Yes. 92% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics scored it lower at 62%, but audiences disagreed.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#21 / 1446 · Adventure
Rank in its year
#8 / 106 · 1997
Rank among its director's films
#1 / 9 · Paul Verhoeven

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

Set in the future, the story follows a young soldier named Johnny Rico and his exploits in the Mobile Infantry. Rico's military career progresses from recruit to non-commissioned officer and finally to officer against the backdrop of an interstellar war between mankind and an arachnoid species known as "the Bugs." Wikipedia ↗

About the Film

Starship Troopers is a 1997 American military science fiction action film directed by Paul Verhoeven, loosely based on Robert A. Heinlein's 1959 novel. The film follows Johnny Rico, played by Casper Van Dien, a Buenos Aires teenager who enlists in the Mobile Infantry — the ground forces of the United Federation — to fight the Arachnids, an insectoid alien species nicknamed Bugs that has attacked Earth by hurling asteroids at Buenos Aires.

Paul Verhoeven deliberately designed the film as a savage satire of fascism and militarism — the Federation's society, with its limited citizenship earned through military service, its propaganda newsreels recruiting children, and its beautiful, ethnically diverse soldiers enthusiastically marching toward meaningless death, was modeled on Nazi Germany's aesthetics and ideology. Many American audiences and critics missed the satire entirely, taking the film at face value as a straightforward (and poorly acted) action movie, though international and subsequent audiences embraced its subversive genius. Starship Troopers earned $121 million worldwide on a $105 million budget and has been extensively reappraised as one of the most intelligent science fiction satires of the 1990s.

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