Superceded by "Starship Troopers", but great for its time

Rating: 10/10 (30 December 2000)

This movie is the perfect allegory, and I mean gory, for the United States and the Vietnam war. We went into this conflict gung-ho and thinking we could bead anyone and got our asses kicked.
Of course, "StarShip Troopers" gives us a cast of thousands of arachnids and takes us through the basic training that gives military their invincible attitude and gave us background of the society that created them, this is never explored, except for allusions to "the company".
For a bunch of guys dressed up in rubber suits, he aliens do a fairly competent job of being menacing. The real strength of this film is the characterizations and how different people react under stress.
Also, the Alien "embryo implantors" are at their creepiest.