Starship Troopers

About Starship Troopers

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."

Starship Troopers is a 1997 science fiction thriller film directed by Paul Verhoeven. The film is filed under military, soldier, alien invasion, and spacecraft.

Casper Van Dien appears as Johnny D. Rico, Dina Meyer as Dizzy Flores, Denise Richards as Carmen Ibañez, and Jake Busey as Private Ace Levy. It runs 129 minutes and was released in November 1997.

The screenplay is by Edward Neumeier. It was produced by Jon Davison Productions and Touchstone Pictures. It is part of Starship Troopers Collection. It is adapted from a novel. It streams on Netflix and YouTube TV in the United States.

Dune, Edge of Tomorrow, and War of the Worlds make useful companions to Starship Troopers, all filed under army, creature, and dystopia. TMDB voters put it at 7.1 out of 10 across 5,758 votes and it carries a R rating.