Film

Starship Troopers 1997

Directed by Paul Verhoeven

  • Adventure, Action, Thriller, Science Fiction
  • 129 min
  • R

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

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."

AdventureActionThrillerScience Fictionspacecraftspace marinearmymoonbased on novel or bookasteroidintelligencedystopiabuenos aires, argentinaspace battlesatiregiant insect

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80 profiled raters. Loved most by The Provocateurs; disliked most by The Prestige Hunters.