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Director: Paul Verhoeven

Release Date: 2 January 1998

Tagline: Genocide doesn’t compare to this.

Main Cast:

Casper Van Dien … Johnny Rico

Dina Meyer … Dizzy Flores

Denise Richards … Carmen Ibanez

Starship Troopers is, in many ways, a strange film. Indeed, the title makes it look like it’s going to be a kitsch sci-fi film, which shows that you can never judge a book by its cover, so to speak. There is a lot of tongue in cheek satire, but underneath all that is a very serious war film. It is set in a future where militarism is primary, signing up is seen as very patriotic and noble and is as common as going to college.

The film follows a group of friends who join the military and find themselves thrown into fighting a bloody and violent war against a race of giant insect like aliens.

Starship Troopers has its fair share of gore and action and at no point does the film disappoint or get tireseome. I was pleasantly surprised to find a very good film behind the ‘popcorn’ title.

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