In the future, young recruit Johnny Rico (Casper Van Dien) joins the Mobile Infantry to fight insect-like alien creatures that threaten Earth, in Paul Verhoeven’s military science fiction action (inspired by Robert A. Heinlein’s novel) with Denise Richards, Dina Meyer and Michael Ironside.
Verhoeven teams up with Robocop co-writer Ed Neumeier once again for another gleefully satirical take on the sci-fi genre, using Heinlein’s borderline fascist original work as a jumping-off point that, instead of using open parody, actively leans into the source material’s excessiveness to highlight how ridiculous it really is.
Other filmmakers might try to alter the core themes to make their point, but Verhoeven amps them all up to 11, in the process sending up the extreme…