Review of Starship Troopers (1997) by Steven B — 22 Jun 2013

Starship Troopers has to be one of the dumbest movies I have ever seen in my entire life. There, I said it. I am so goddamn sick of stupid idiots out there calling it "A jaw-dropping experience"(Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times) or "Massive, hilarious and thrilling.

" (Gregory Weinkauf, ÜberCiné) Those idiot critics are fucking morons. There aint nothing deep about this shit, it's a dumb sci-fi shoot em' up that only works about a quarter of the time.

The story, what little there is, is that a bunch of space marines have to stop a race of fake ass cgi bugs from wiping out humanity. There are those idiots out there that are probably like 'But Peter, it has such dark themes such as humans being where they don't belong and questioning whether or not we have the right to exterminate a species" Yes, the movie does carry those themes but they are so poorly executed and used to no effect.

If you want to see a deep, mature, dark, science-fiction epic that carries those themes and does them justice, well James Cameron's Avatar is for you. Starship Troopers is nothing but a cliché, dumb as hell meathead war story.

The acting in Starship Troopers is wooden, stale, and just bad. These characters are seeing the friends being torn to pieces and suffering gruesome deaths and yet they show no goddamn emotion about it.

The dialogue doesn't fare any better. Some of it is so bad that it makes you cringe; it tries to add in some dark humor but fails miserably. The characters are unlikable cum stains that you never grow attached to and you begin to hate their guts over the course of the film.

The special effects look like shit, I mean seriously, this came out in 1997 and this is the best that they could come up with? Seriously? The positives that I have about this movie are the awesome action scenes and that if you can somehow manage to turn your brain off than I can see people enjoying it.

If you have to see this movie, just rent it dude.