Title: Disappointing
Product review: Probably the most anticipated and least enjoyable sci-fi movie of the 1990s- if not the entire post-WWII era. Starship Troopers was one of Heinlein's classic novels that combined great shoot-em-up action with his message about individualism and the role of the state. What the movie delivers is a badly written, amateurishly acted heavy handed attempt at social satire that just doesn't come off. Gone is the first-person perspective of the novel, replaced by a rather impersonal view that leaves you completely indifferent to the fate of the actors involved.More than one person has said the movie should have carried the tag line "Adapted from the paperback cover of the novel!" and that's about as close as it gets to the original novel. The battle scenes do manage to convey some of the horror of battle, but the bug effects look kind of cheap, the spcaecraft look cheesy and in the end you've got a pretty forgettable movie.
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