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I’m not sure how young I was when I last watched this, but apparently too young to understand a lot of what was going on. I mostly just remembered it as a funny sci-fi action flick.

It still is a funny sci-fi action flick, but I think I actually appreciate it more now that I can see the (very obvious) message Paul Verhoeven was making about fascism, propaganda, and war.

It’s very much a b-movie. Some of the acting, especially in the action sequences, is wooden to say the least, but it sort of adds to the overall cheesy charm.

The one thing I didn’t really like this time through (that I was again blissfully unaware of last time) was how much the female characters served solely as love interests rather than people in their own right.

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