Starship Troopers

Movie

1997

2h 9m

English

Adventure, Action, Thriller, Science Fiction

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7.2

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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 a...

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Starship Troopers

Movie

1997

2h 9m

English

Adventure, Action, Thriller, Science Fiction

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Cast

Johnny D. Rico

Dizzy Flores

Carmen Ibañez

Private Ace Levy

Colonel Carl Jenkins

Career Sergeant Zim

Lieutenant Jean Rasczak

Patrick Muldoon

Zander Barcalow

Seth Gilliam

Private Sugar Watkins

Biology Teacher

Katrina McIntire

Lieutenant Willy

Corporal Birdie

Sky Marshal Dienes

Sky Marshal Tehat Meru

Cadet Lumbreiser

Djana'D

Expert

General

Commanding Officer

General Owen

Breckinridge

Kitten Smith

Shujimi

Captain Deladier

Directed By: Paul Verhoeven

Written By: Edward Neumeier (Screenplay), Robert A. Heinlein (Novel)

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NotoriousX says...

8 years ago

How a gory, cliche filled, fascist dream can be so entertaining is beyond me, but entertaining it is... This sci-fi romp is HIGHLY underrated. Highly entertaining and actually thought-provoking in its own way, Starship Troopers delivers a couple of hours of entertainment you'll not soon forget. The script is loosely based on a book by renowned, sometimes controversial, sci-fi author Robert A. Heinlein, but deviates a lot from the book. If you have read it, you might be disappointed, but I doubt it... Recommended to anyone with even the slightest interest in sci-fi.

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justin says...

13 years ago

Nuke 'em!

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KurtMoney says...

6 years ago

Boy I expected more out of this given its reputation. It's too long. It takes forever to get to the good stuff. It has the older guy who dated Kelly on SBTB. On the plus side it has Ironside and Clancy Brown. I don't know...its a fun movie but didn't live up to its rep. UPDATE: I'd like to say that I was a real dumdum when I said the above stuff and now have seen the light on Starship Troopers and how it rules. Many thanks to the Action Boyz for helping me realize we got a perfect movie on our hands.

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player8472 says...

3 years ago

This is one of the best Scifi-Trash movies ever made! If you expect an ideal world in any sense or something to strive for, this movie is not for you. If you like to watch action in a Universe you certainly never want to live in, this is the movie for you. What I find most interesting rewatching it (again) in 2021 is that the special effects range from super crappy to amazing even by todays standards (The cheap explosions and the clearly fake hand in the famous knife-scene vs the bugs "artillery" firing at the ships). Sometimes they are even in the same frame so you can see cheap vs amazing at the same time which leads me to believe that they actually did it on purpuse (at least on a subconcious level).

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AndrewBloom

6/10 8 years ago

Starship Troopers feels like a cross between Ender's Game and Dawson's Creek and Full Metal Jacket and Idiocracy and Star Wars and She's All That, which is to say that it feels simultaneously distinctive and unusual while also seeming fairly familiar and unoriginal.

But it's a gen More

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CallMeTrimTab

1/10 7 years ago

I essentially never give a film a 1 vote; even a very bad one. But this film takes one of the most powerful and historically significant works of science fiction, and quite consciously makes a joke out of it. Heinlein, in 1959, years ahead of his contemporaries, in one single small book, absolutel More

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dunpealhunter

9/10 13 years ago

Great movie, from one of the best and most famous directors coming out of the Netherlands: Paul Verhoeven.

I enjoyed watching the short promotion clips throughout the movie that depicted an at first sight utopian society, but if you look more closely its more like a fascist regime much like Nazi Ge More

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misubisu

2 years ago

I remember when I watched this movie at the theatre in 1997. It was unlike any movie I had ever seen... dismemberment, blood & guts all over the place.
But it was all in context.
Verhoeven really had a way with deceptively smart satire and this movie is full of it (all the school children stomping More

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