Title: Good effects, weak plot, violence galore
Product review: The special effects are really, really good: those big bugs seem to be truly there. The plot is almost preposterous: finishing off those bugs in their home planet would have been a piece of cake, even with current technology (assuming one could actually get to that planet.) I thought the explicit violence was sickening in several instances, but the fascist subplot was absolutely the worst thing: Verhoeven always manages to make something sordid and sinister of his plots (recall Robocop, Basic Instinct, or the ghastly Showgirls.) I was appalled to see in the theater families with young children. Talk about desensitizing children.
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