Paul Verhoeven's often electrifying Starship Troopers is a $100 million B-movie, and proud of it. Based on writer Robert Heinlein's '59 novel, it's a tongue-in-cheek tale of futuristic war, disgracefully entertaining and sensationally camp. It delivers everything it promised - - massed legions of CG aliens, leviathan spacecruisers, blasted cityscapes and eager tattooed marines firing portable nukes. Starship Troopers is an event movie in every sense of the word, a thrill-ride basking in loud, pulpy megaviolence. This movie has all the style and enormity of a summer blockbuster. And it's only January...
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