Touches You

A different way of telling a story

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

A black op has gone terribly wrong. Now, Captain Carmen Ibanez and a hardcore trooper famed as Major Henry "Hero" Varro must lead a team of battle-weary troopers to find the missing ship and discover what went wrong. Starship Troopers: Invasion is no better than Starship Troopers 3 plus the whole animation/video game kind of film doesn't work for me either sorry. Plus that scene where one of the soldiers offers the girl to wash her back cause she was naked was beyond stupid especially when she approached him and left. (0/10)

This is a severely underrated film given the franchise. Don't be put off by the low IMDb score.I feel that the low score ST:I has received on the IMDb is largely down to one thing; people misinterpreting it as a rip off of Aliens (1986).And ST:I certainly draws many, many parallels with Cameron's classic military sci fi as well as similarities with Halo - in particular the body armoured suits. For a start, the storyline, the film follows a group of soldiers (troopers) on board a super ship that has an infestation of bugs. Also on board is an alien.. sorry bug.. queen. So a synopsis almost identical to Aliens. But it doesn't stop there, the drop ship, the motion tracker, the power loader (marauder), the gun design with the under slung grenade launcher, the "bug hunt", hell even the headlights on the trooper shoulders/helmets... the list goes on.And then comes the kicker;Starship Troopers was a novel by Robert Heinlein..... published in 1959.What we see in ST:I is a graphically representation of the descriptions from Heinlein's book, 27 years before Aliens. Which is actually quite upsetting if you hold Aliens (1986) in high regard. Indeed Cameron commented that he had the actors from Aliens read Heinlein's novel before filming began.With that aside, let's move onto the film. I'll be brief.ST:I is essentially the 4th piece in the ST series. We join Carmen, Rico and Carl later in the careers, all somewhat older and withered. In some aspects it's a little like the Star Wars franchise as ST:I is the concluding piece in Rico's story from recruit, to NCO and finally to General.Whilst ST:I probably won't win any awards for scriptwriting, it is an impressive piece as far as computer animated film making goes. Most notable are the texturing, particularly skin, and the lighting as well as body dynamics. If you didn't see the faces of the characters and weren't aware that this was a CGI film, you wouldn't know any different. Ironically at some points in the film the characters look out of place as the bugs and set pieces look so realistic. Again, if you can separate your mind from knowing this is CGI, many shots and sequences would fit snuggly into any number of "real", high budget, Hollywood scifi films. The storyline is fairly basic, linear and comfortable to follow with moments of genuine tension and surprise. While there isn't too much in the way of character "development", you do feel a sense of disheartenment when certain characters die.The overall tone of the film is more serious than the previous instalments of ST. There's no cheese or campy comic book style as there was in ST01 (which worked well I thought). ST:I includes scenes of blood and naked women (top up) with pre and post sex scenes - in the same manner that ST01 did. Several of which highlighting the level of effort that the animators have gone to, to detail and texture the components of the film.In short, the film is very impressive and worth a watch, far superior to ST02 and arguably better than ST03, the only downside being that Heinleins 1959 novel has set a precedent that will ruin most of what you know today, whether you're a scifi film fan or an avid gamer.

Every sequel to the Starship Troopers movie I have watched, but none has come near the quality and excitement of the brilliantly creative original directed by Paul Verhoeven. This film was one big let down and disappointment. Other than the amazing fantastic original, the only one worth watching was the third. This film is all CGI animation, so it's like watching one tedious long scene from of a really bad and boring video game. And CGI in this one for the actors looks cheap and horrible. Horrible, I say! CGI cannot come close to doing the job and performance of what a live person can. I wish they would quit putting out low budget loser sequels in this film series, and put some effort into a real quality film for fans. Jerry Bruckheimer can do it. Paul Greengrass can do it. Paul Anderson can do it. Apparently the director/filmmakers making the sequels to this franchise for Starship Troopers cannot. What a big let down and shame.

1st watched 12/10/2012 – 7 out of 10(Dir-Shinji Aramaki): Well made CGI movie that continues the bug-alien tradition of 3 other live action "Starship Troopers" movies -- but really betters at least the original, in my opinion, because it focuses of the action. Although the human animation isn't 100% believable, the beautiful backgrounds, props and the animation of the Queen bug is first rate. The makers of this movie also create a very good story that is slow going at first with some corny lines thrown in, but they make up for it with how they pull everything together. The movie is primarily about a lady captain who's ship is overtaken by something unknown and the troops plan on hunting it down and bringing it back. What is discovered is that the Queen bug (created by a mad scientist trying to figure out how to outwit the bugs) is controlling it after they captured it from the humans. The first half of the movie is used to setup the story and the characters and the last half focuses on the action. This is definitely not a movie for kids as there is CGI nudity(which is actually pretty revealing), a lot of violence, rough language, and lots of splattering bugs. There is very little humor here as the filmmakers went one direction with this one and pulled it off pretty well. This is similar to Aliens 2 in that it goes straight for the jugular and doesn't hold back once it gets going. I wasn't quite sure I was going to accept this medium for this movie at first, but it captured my attention with it's storytelling and visuals. This is a unique movie by a Japanese director, with a very American-like feel to the story but is a lot of fun and is a very worthwhile addition to this franchise.