Such a disappointment. The great screenwriter Ed Neumeier gets in the director’s chair and….lays waste to his best property.
All the subtlety that makes the first Starship Troopers such a masterpiece is traded in for cheap jokes and easy satire. When the Federation is this plainly evil it also deadens all of the action sequences, in that it is impossible to root for anywhere. Mild kudos, though, to Casper Van Diem to be seen as such a, um, vertically challenged man. Who knows if he knew about it on set, though.
As shocking as it may sound, I prefer the straight-up monster movie slasher that was Starship Troopers 2.
