Protraph Lack of good storyline.

SparkMore n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

James Looking a bit derivative, with its "Federation" and 'warp drive", the "Starship Troopers" genre in fact goes well back to 1959 Robert Heinlein sci-fi, and it has a lot to say about military-industrial complex scenarios. In fact, Eisenhower was criticised by Heinlein for not being gung-ho enough, and it was ultimately that President who first used the term military-industrial complex, in the context of something to be guarded against.Heinlein thus tended to speak up for the military in his books, while in the films we see (and see satirised and somewhat criticised) the military domination of life, art, commerce, discipline, social norms and everything else (here even also religion) in the fight against arachnid aliens so teeming, so pushy and so utterly ruthless that they make Tolkien's orcs look like teddy-bears. They are cannon-fodder big time, but, buglike indeed, are alarmingly hard to kill, and impossible to eradicate en masse. Hence, more often than not, our hero recruits into the armed forces (which in this dystopia means pretty much everybody) drop like flies themselves. And interestingly, while those in authority are mocked by the film, the ordinary soldiery tend not to be, though they do certainly expire with great regularity, and relatively gorily.In the meantime, there is a (poignantly authentic) touch of the Stalingrads about a situation in which male and female troops live, love, fight and (all-too-soon) die alongside each other as equals. "Starship Troopers" the original was notorious for an ostensibly-titillating, but also groundbreaking, shared-changing-room scene in which males and females routinely appeared naked alongside one another without giving it a second thought. Needless to say, film 3 does not fully resist this temptation, and the point is again made quite impressively.Edward Neumeier's third instalment also emulates its first predecessor of 11 years earlier in pushing the "public information film" as a way of holding its story together, and this remains enjoyable in a way that emphasises how not-altogether-far from this kind of thing we are already. In the first film, these helped the story along, whereas here one is a little hard-pressed to find a story. The thing looks more like a series of vignettes, and not all aspects of the plot seem to follow through. The first section takes place on a farm-colony planet that seems to be in perpetual darkness (some farming!), and it plays with a story about a farmers' revolt against the Federation that seems to go nowhere at all.The film also has a love interest between Gen. Dix Hauser (Boris Kodjoe) and Capt. Lola Beck (Jolene Blalock) - in which Casper Van Dien's Johnny Rico plays gooseberry - that also seems pure artifice, not even convincing in the film's own limited terms.British/Irish actors Amanda Donohoe and Stephen Hogan are on-screen rivals for top jobs that give better value, however, with Hogan's Sky Marshal being as much entertainer as commander-in-chief - a clever plot twist. Since he has come under the spell of a false deity, he contrasts with others who are really part of a religious revival (also somewhat intriguing as a film concept).Ultimately, one mainly watches a film of this type for the above slightly tongue-in-cheek presentation of some future world of ours, as well as to get a good attack of the shudders watching man against beast. Here the film does as it should, giving us the creeps effectively enough, and helping the more imaginative viewer consider the possibility that maybe, just maybe, somewhere out there in endless space...

bkoganbing Casper Van Dien must have been offered plenty of loot to reprise his role as John Rico from Starship Troopers. He's now in the officer ranks and still a role model for the infantry troopers fighting the arachnid invasion.Starship Trooper 3: Marauder finds things have changed in the Federation and on the arachnid side. The original one ended with the capture of a giant brain bug as it became obvious those bugs definitely were using some kind of military strategy. But it's only the tip of the iceberg so to say.Rico is in a nice jackpot as he's blamed for a huge battle loss and scheduled to be hung. But he has friends in high places and they need him for a rescue mission of a sky admiral.There's also a growing peace movement that gets kind of violent as peace movements sometimes can. As for the rest all I can say is the bugs are learning quite a bit about what makes humankind tick.Van Dien is still as heroic as ever as John Rico, perhaps a bit wiser with age. None of the others who played characters who survived reappear in this. Might have made for greater continuity if they had.Unlike the first sequel the second paid a bit more attention to the society that formed because of the bug invasion and some of the inevitable flaws in a militarist based society. It's also got a lot of good action.Nowhere a patch on the original but far better than number 2.

protoss evolution Starship Troopers 3 succeeds in returning to the original sarcastic oriented plot, against the "Alien" sci-fi horror style they adopted in the second. So, plot and tone wise, it's an advancement. But, what bugs me (no pun intended), its the ST2 and ST3 budget, and the CGI in both. With a budget of 7 million in ST2, against 20 million in ST3, it's really strange that the CGI effects looks a lot better on Starship Troopers 2. OK, the "real" environment in ST3 it's better than in ST2. But I don't believe this explain the cheapness of the CGI bugs in ST3. Environment and scope aside, the Bugs animation and how it blends in the real scene in ST2 matches the quality found in the original movie. It's not the case on ST3, where the bugs clearly doesn't blend well in the scene and, worst, has a very clunky animation. That won't happen in ST2.Considering that in these kind of movie, the most interesting things are the aliens, the special effects, it's very disappointing to see that ST3 doesn't improve over ST2, but it's in reality, worse. Considering the plot and tone is better than ST2, I can say it's a tie at mediocrity.

nikola17 this movie sucked it's like watching kids TV show or movie like power rangers OK the camera and visual effects looked so crap CGI animating it is very weak. So is the bug animation Even the first movie looked better than this one and that was made in '97. I would say the CGI in this movie is on the same level as Robocop 2 which was made 18 years ago. i know it's low budget b movie but this movie got %50 people still like this crap comeon what's so good about it ? it was boring main girl character was fine but this movie just hopeless and pain i rather watch Doom better then this or Aliens and Battle of Los Angeles and Terminator Salvation were better then crap movie and the big giant monster looks SO terrible there some nudity in movie was OK but people give this %50 percent because it has porn in movie that is just stupid movie i ever saw and story didn't NO SENSE IN EVER make sense the way it edited just looks really bad even i stand the movie no more it's time waster 0/10