Storyline
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".
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Cast
Neil Patrick Harris, Dale Dye, Denise Dowse, Clancy Brown, Michael Ironside, Amy Smart, Dean Norris, Jake Busey, Denise Richards, Steven Ford, Dina Meyer, Casper Van Dien, Seth Gilliam, Patrick Muldoon, Bruce Gray, Julianna McCarthy, Rue McClanahan, Blake Lindsley, Ungela Brockman, Tami-Adrian George
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Reviews
83
Entertainment Weekly
The movie is sensationally exciting, but its hey-kids-let s-put-on-a-war! story line plays like Beverly Hills, 90210 recast as a military-recruitment film for the Third Reich.
75
ReelViews
Although none of the characters are fleshed out much beyond the comic book level, we nevertheless find our sympathies aligning with them.
50
Chicago Sun-Times
Faithfully represents Heinlein's militarism, his Big Brother state, and a value system in which the highest good is to kill a friend before the Bugs can eat him. The underlying ideas are the most interesting aspect of the film.
50
Christian Science Monitor
Paul Verhoeven's movie takes more action than ideas from Robert A. Heinlein's 1959 novel, which is just as well, considering the book's goofy suggestion that military veterans should control society from top to bottom.
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
The word "arachnid," as it's said so contemptuously in the movie, begins to sound suspiciously like "Iraqi," and indeed, we soon see the elite bugs are hunkered down in their desert fortress, resisting the mighty air assaults of the Federation. The conclusion of our story involves unearthing the chief bug.
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