Protraph
Lack of good storyline.
Mjeteconer
Just perfect...
Comwayon
A Disappointing Continuation
Aneesa Wardle
The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
adonis98-743-186503
A Federation Starship crash-lands on the distant Alien planet OM-1, stranding beloved leader Sky Marshal Anoke and several others, including comely but tough pilot Lola Beck. It's up to Colonel/General Johnny Rico, reluctant hero of the original Bug Invasion on Planet P, to lead a team of Troopers on a daring rescue mission. A bad cgi is a bad cgi, a bad story is a bad story and a bad movie sequel? is a bad movie sequel and 'Starship Troopers 3: Marauder' is actually just that with it's weird comedy, awful perfomances and even worse of a plot it makes. (0/10)
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.
bheadher
Nope! It just isn't happening with this bunch...they even brought back Casper Van Dien to try and save the day. Now Casper was once a young actor with some modest potential, but as often happens today his potential was wasted with poor script and no story...the bugs have apparently invented new, more devastating weapons, and bio engineered new bugs, heh heh...but none of that adds to a lack luster script. The whole movie just wanders aimlessly, touching on nothing but grime and gore for the sake of gore. Can't these people realize that producing movies carries some moral responsibility to the viewer?Nope, this franchise is toast in my opinion...
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.
