Starship Troopers
November 7, 1997 in theaters
December 22, 1997 on Netflix
Starship Troopers is Paul Verhoeven's 1997 sci-fi war epic, following Johnny Rico from raw recruit to officer in humanity's interstellar war against an insectoid enemy. Beneath the bug-squashing spectacle, Verhoeven hid one of cinema's sharpest satires — a deadpan takedown of militarism and propaganda wearing the grin of a blockbuster, and decades of argument about it are part of the point. In Sci-Fi Worlds it's an all-timer: endlessly quotable, gleefully violent, and smarter than it ever let on.
Cast
Casper Van Dien
Johnny D. Rico
Dina Meyer
Dizzy Flores
Denise Richards
Carmen Ibañez
Jake Busey
Private Ace Levy
Neil Patrick Harris
Colonel Carl Jenkins
Clancy Brown
Career Sergeant Zim
Michael Ironside
Lieutenant Jean Rasczak
Patrick Muldoon
Zander Barcalow
Seth Gilliam
Private Sugar Watkins
Rue McClanahan
Biology Teacher
Blake Lindsley
Katrina McIntire
Steven Ford
Lieutenant Willy
Ungela Brockman
Corporal Birdie
Bruce Gray
Sky Marshal Dienes
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THE VERDICT
Synthesized from published reviews
Paul Verhoeven's biting satire disguises a lethal critique of fascism and propaganda inside a hyper-violent, bug-squashing sci-fi blockbuster. Misunderstood upon release, the film has rightfully earned its status as a subversive masterpiece of late-twentieth-century cinema. It remains as razor-sharp, grotesque, and entertaining as ever.
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