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Name: Starship Troopers
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Genre: action, adventure, science-fiction, thriller
Released: 1997
Duration: 2 h 9 min
Rating: 7.3

Starship Troopers has an iRankMovies score of 68.3/100, based on a weighted combination of IMDb (×3.0), Rotten Tomatoes (×2.0), Metacritic (×1.5), and TMDb (×1.0).

Starship Troopers (1997)

A new kind of enemy. A new kind of war.

Release:1997

Runtime:2h 9m

Country:United States

Director:Paul Verhoeven

Language:English

Genre

ActionAdventureScience Fiction

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Keywords

SpacecraftSpace MarineArmyMoonBased On Novel Or BookAsteroidIntelligencedystopia

iRank68

Starship Troopers rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb7.3/10· 344K votes

Rotten Tomatoes72%

Metacritic52%

TMDb7.106/10· 5K votes

With 72% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.3/10 on IMDb and 52/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been positive.

About Starship Troopers

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 an arachnoid species known as "the Bugs."

Cast of Starship Troopers

Casper Van Dien
as Johnny D. Rico
Dina Meyer
as Dizzy Flores
Denise Richards
as Carmen Ibañez
Jake Busey
as Private Ace Levy
Neil Patrick Harris
as Colonel Carl Jenkins
Clancy Brown
as Career Sergeant Zim
Michael Ironside
as Lieutenant Jean Rasczak
Patrick Muldoon
as Zander Barcalow
Seth Gilliam
as Private Sugar Watkins
Rue McClanahan
as Biology Teacher
Blake Lindsley
as Katrina McIntire
Steven Ford
as Lieutenant Willy

Starship Troopers facts

Budget: $105M
Box office: $121.2M
Collection: Starship Troopers Collection

Our take on Starship Troopers

Paul Verhoeven's 1997 science-fiction film charts the rise of young soldier Johnny Rico, from raw recruit to non-commissioned officer to officer, against an interstellar war between humanity and an arachnoid species known as the Bugs. On its surface a big, ferocious action-adventure of Mobile Infantry combat, it carries Verhoeven's characteristic edge: the gung-ho military spectacle doubles as pointed satire of propaganda and blind patriotism. It suits viewers who want spectacle with a sardonic undercurrent, and who can enjoy relentless bug-hunt battles while catching the film's colder joke about the machine that sends young people to fight. Loud, kinetic and slyer than it first appears.

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