Starship Troopers (1997)
Country: US
Technical: col 129m
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Cast: Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer, Denise Richards, Michael Ironside
Synopsis:
In an Earth of the future, young Americans of both sexes join up to go out and fight lethal bug creatures that threaten the Solar System.
Review:
Once again Verhoeven turns his satirical eye onto the totalitarian state, and there are some pseudo-Nazi touches to the training section of this archetypal 'recruiting to shooting' flagwaver. As in Robocop, this finds the director at his best, with genuine laughs offset by gruesome gore and human-bug ultra-violence. Of course, he is ironically aware that the audience can cheer conscience-free, since the enemy is alien. This is a film that works on many levels, beyond the high-school soap operatic earnestness that is resolutely tongue-in-cheek.
Country: US
Technical: col 129m
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Cast: Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer, Denise Richards, Michael Ironside
Synopsis:
In an Earth of the future, young Americans of both sexes join up to go out and fight lethal bug creatures that threaten the Solar System.
Review:
Once again Verhoeven turns his satirical eye onto the totalitarian state, and there are some pseudo-Nazi touches to the training section of this archetypal 'recruiting to shooting' flagwaver. As in Robocop, this finds the director at his best, with genuine laughs offset by gruesome gore and human-bug ultra-violence. Of course, he is ironically aware that the audience can cheer conscience-free, since the enemy is alien. This is a film that works on many levels, beyond the high-school soap operatic earnestness that is resolutely tongue-in-cheek.
Country: US
Technical: col 129m
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Cast: Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer, Denise Richards, Michael Ironside
Synopsis:
In an Earth of the future, young Americans of both sexes join up to go out and fight lethal bug creatures that threaten the Solar System.
Review:
Once again Verhoeven turns his satirical eye onto the totalitarian state, and there are some pseudo-Nazi touches to the training section of this archetypal 'recruiting to shooting' flagwaver. As in Robocop, this finds the director at his best, with genuine laughs offset by gruesome gore and human-bug ultra-violence. Of course, he is ironically aware that the audience can cheer conscience-free, since the enemy is alien. This is a film that works on many levels, beyond the high-school soap operatic earnestness that is resolutely tongue-in-cheek.