This twisted space opera serves up carcasses in six-digit figures but is foremost a sendup for the ages.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Owen Gleiberman
The movie is sensationally exciting, but its hey-kids-let s-put-on-a-war! story line plays like Beverly Hills, 90210 recast as a military-recruitment film for the Third Reich.Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
Although none of the characters are fleshed out much beyond the comic book level, we nevertheless find our sympathies aligning with them.Read Full Review »
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Time: Richard Schickel
Maybe the filmmakers are so lost in their slambang visual effects that they don't give a hoot about the movie's scariest implications. [10 Nov 1997, p.102]Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kenneth Turan
What Ed Neumeier's script provides instead is a cheerfully lobotomized, always watchable experience that has the simple-mindedness of a live-action comic book, with no words spoken that wouldn't be right at home in a funny paper dialogue balloon. Not just one comic book either, but an improbable and delirious combination of "Weird Science," "Betty and Veronica" and "Sgt. Rock and His Howling Commandos."Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
Faithfully represents Heinlein's militarism, his Big Brother state, and a value system in which the highest good is to kill a friend before the Bugs can eat him. The underlying ideas are the most interesting aspect of the film.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Elvis Mitchell
Pretty actors, grisly critters, brains sucked out of skulls, buckets of green slime and a plot that is half beach blanket bingo, half Iwo Jima.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Desson Thomson
Nothing like the sight of thousands of scuttling, hideous, practically indestructible insects crawling up the sides of a fortress, hellbent on destroying the human race. As they keep coming and coming, they’re the only things in this movie earning your money.Read Full Review »
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NewsWeek: Jeff Giles
An empty videogame of a movie about interplanetary pest control.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Scott Rosenberg
In this bizarrely discordant mixture of ultraviolent action footage, bad acting, crisp special effects and futuristic camp, the remnants of Heinlein's rhetoric of military pride stick out like a grimy Marine uniform at a high-toned Hollywood party.Read Full Review »
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