Well Verhoeven has long since proven that he has a talent for making the most mindless gratuitously violent garbage anyone could ever wish to see. But what do you expect from a director who once famously stated: That he, and some of the reviewers here, try to defend this turkey on the basis that it is a work of satirical genius is laughable. I agree totally that Heinlein must be spinning in his grave, and that Verhoeven, if he ever bothered to read the novel at all, failed utterly to understand it's meaning.