Fantastic!

It is so daring, it is so ambitious, it is so thrilling and weird and pointed and powerful. I never knew where it was going.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

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.

At first glance, you might be put off by the cheap CGI intro, and feel as if the film is a cheap ripoff version of the (1997) Original Starship Troopers movie. While this film certainly shares the original's satire, it takes it in a different direction: Whereas Starship Troopers (1997) was a political satire, this film is a less subtle but takes on heavily over-the-top religious-political tones, its excellent script written by Edward Neumeier somewhat diminished by its poor budget and Jolene Blalock's horrendous lips, the former flaw not necessarily noticeable unless you nitpick. In the start of the film, the federation is a war hungry atheist state a la early communist China with propaganda/infomercial broadcasts and a ban on any religious worship that leads to "sedition" or "In any way destabilizes the war effort", executing rebels and dissidents in live hangings. From there, the film take the viewer on a wild ride: An attack on a military outpost and a group of survivors stranded on an infested planet, all leads to eventual revelations that help the federation rethink its military strategy in the war against the bugs, while the viewer can reflect on the implications. The film is backed by an excellent soundtrack composed by Klaus Badelt, some gratuitous nudity and the most romantic kissing scene you've ever seen in a science fiction film, ever. While the graphics feel a bit crap, action scenes are nevertheless entertaining, and the message behind the film is important. As long as you judge it beyond the merits of mindless entertainment, you will probably find it as funny, enjoyable and dare I say insightful an experience as I have.

It's hard to believe that Starship Troopers 3 didn't cost much more than Starship Troopers 2 to make, when it looks 5 times as expensive. I think ST3 was much better planned and saved a lot of money on that. Ed Neumeier wrote all 3 movies, but it still didn't look like he wrote ST2 at all. ST1, ST3 and Robocop clearly shows it have the same writer. Did Neumeier sleep when writing ST 2, or did he write that store in a day at tops? ST 3 Marauder is the only true sequel to Starship Troopers, and a decent one.This movie gets 2 extra stars only because it looks like a cheaper version of a Verhoeven movie, and a good effort on its low budget. Its as close to a true ST sequel we will ever get probably. After the disaster ST 2, its easy to think that ST3 is even worse, but isn't. If you liked Starship Troopers, you will most likely like this one as this movie even have several surprises.There is a Starship Troopers remake rumoured which is a very bad idea as its very hard to even be close to par with the first masterpiece. I was on of the minors which understood the first movie the first time at cinema in 1997, because Verhoeven is my favourite director and i had seen and bought all his movies including the dutch ones. Something tells me its better to watch "ST3 Marauder" than the upcoming disaster of a remake.

I really enjoyed the first film. The second, well, after the second you know that the third one will suck big time. Take a look for yourself. Extremely low budget, ridiculous story, bad acting, ugly CGI... Now, Edward Neumeier who wrote all Robocop films, including TV series and more, brought us this despicable gem, which was... spiced with Christianity... wtf? Casper Van Dien, who is still appearing in these straight to DVD film, you can see that his acting career has failed. None of the actors did a good job, even Amanda Donohoe, she was just there for a tough chick commander role. There's nothing special to say about this film... really nothing, except that pretty much liked the part where chosen solders are launched in their "Marauder" armors and kicking the s**t out of bugs. Other things... nothing.For the end, the ugly thing - the Christianity. I don't understand... that was unnecessary in this film. Let alone in some futuristic film. There is a God in universe, we must marry in church, blah blah... That really irritated me. We also had a conflict between theist and atheist and in the end, the theist wins... whoopee! But, the theist chick was hot... so, I wasn't that irritated. So, 59% of the film comes down that there is a God in space... I really don't recommend this film to anyone. Well, if you are a Christian, you'll love it. Maybe.