Paul Verhoeven’s 10 best films – ranked!
about 3 years in The guardian
With the re-release of RoboCop – the director’s chillingly prescient sci-fi gorefest – we look back at his Hollywood debut and the rest of his best filmsRutger Hauer, in his sixth and last film for Verhoeven, plays the leader of a band of mercenaries who kidnap and deflower the fiancee of a duplicitous nobleman, in this Dutch-American mini epic set in Italy during the middle ages. Brace yourself for non-PC sex and violence, Carry on up the Codpiece humour, and buboes a-go-go. Continue reading...