Paul Verhoeven's cult film about a group of young recruits fighting against an alien insect army.
The best piece written about this film comes from Jochen Werner of the Kino in den Hackeschen Höfen. We quote: "With *Starship Troopers*, Paul Verhoeven takes the scathing social and media satire already present in *RoboCop* to the extreme—and, within the framework of a sci-fi blockbuster spectacle, crafts not only arguably his finest film but also one of the smartest and most subversive movies ever made about fascism and militarism. Taking Robert A. Heinlein’s decidedly proto-fascist novel as his starting point, Verhoeven thoroughly subverts the source material; through the story of a generation of young soldiers being used as cannon fodder in an interstellar war against giant space bugs, he delivers a savagely biting deconstruction of propaganda and warmongering."
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