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Starship Troopers
MEANRANK
73/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1838
- IMDb #1406
- Google retired #1099
- Rotten Tomatoes #2340
- Metacritic #2170
- Letterboxd #947
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2629
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2558
- Metacritic Critics #3259
- Metacritic Audience #501
- Criticker #1590
- Douban #636
- Kinopoisk #1120
- AlloCiné #1108
- Trakt #976
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 50, highest is Google on 90. Critics average 62, everyone else 75.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →In a futuristic society where citizenship is earned through military service, a group of high school friends enlist in the Mobile Infantry after graduation. They are thrust into a brutal interstellar war against a species of giant, intelligent alien insects. They experience the harsh realities of combat, loss, and propaganda as they fight to survive and protect Earth from the existential threat.
Details
- Director
- Paul Verhoeven
- Writer
- Edward Neumeier
- Based on
- Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
- Released
- 7 November 1997
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 129 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $105.0M
- Box office
- $121.2M
- Awards
- 0 wins, 4 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
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| 70th Academy Awards 1998 | Best Visual Effects | John Richardson | Nominee |
| 70th Academy Awards 1998 | Best Visual Effects | Phil Tippett | Nominee |
| 70th Academy Awards 1998 | Best Visual Effects | Scott E. Anderson | Nominee |
| 70th Academy Awards 1998 | Best Visual Effects | Alec Gillis | Nominee |
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4 awards — Starship Troopers
×| Best Visual Effects | John Richardson | Nominee |
| Best Visual Effects | Phil Tippett | Nominee |
| Best Visual Effects | Scott E. Anderson | Nominee |
| Best Visual Effects | Alec Gillis | Nominee |