STARSHIP TROOPERS
Starship Troopers is a 1997 American satirical military science fiction action film directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Edward Neumeier. It originally came from an unrelated script called Bug Hunt at Outpost Nine, but eventually licensed the name Starship Troopers from the science fiction novel of the same name by Robert A. Heinlein. The story follows a young soldier named Johnny Rico and his exploits in the Mobile Infantry, a futuristic military unit, against the backdrop of an interstellar war between mankind and an insectoid species known as “Arachnids”. The only theatrically released film in the Starship Troopers film series, it received mostly negative reviews from critics upon release but has garnered a more mixed reception in retrospect. In 2012, Slant Magazine ranked the film #20 on its list of the 100 Best Films of the 1990s.(More from Wikipedia)
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