Great movie, from one of the best and most famous directors coming out of the Netherlands: Paul Verhoeven.

I enjoyed watching the short promotion clips throughout the movie that depicted an at first sight utopian society, but if you look more closely its more like a fascist regime much like Nazi Germany was in the 1930's and 40's. The difference being that now they have highly advanced weapons and spaceships, and instead of the Allies they fight a coalition of different giant insect races.

The differences between race and even man and woman seem to have vanished (co-ed showers!). Maybe because of a new danger where all of humankind had to respond to. Whatever the reason the co-ed shower scene was nice :P.

The overall action was very great and the acting of everyone involved was good. The bugs and spaceships looked very good, especially considering that CGI was still in its infancy back in 1997. But i think a lot of it has been made using actual models.

As the movie goes further we see that instead of a justified war the men and women are fighting a pointless war while the media at home brainwashes the masses in supporting this war with a thick layer of patriotism. I can't help but see some similarities between this world depicted in the movie and the USA of today.