Sadly Over-hyped

Perfect cast and a good story

Boring, long, and too preachy.

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

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.

Some planet colony of the federation is being run over by bugs. The leader of the federation who doubles as a pop star arrives with some other higher ups most of which are Rico's friends. When things are hopeless they escape in a pod and end up in a bug planet. Rico ends up jailed and sentenced for execution.There was always something odd about the leader- a religious aspect, and he doesn't quite see the bugs as enemies, and the bugs, too, seem to leave him alone.Some other female boss takes over the federation impersonating the leader and not sending a rescue mission to find him. That's too much for Rico's friend who helps him escape and forms a squad of mech warriors to find and rescue the leader. They also discover the real intentions of a bug brain they've held in captivity.Meanwhile the group on bug planet finds out there is indeed something very wrong with the leader who seeks to make contact with a bug god.Starship Troopers 3 sure is campy and it delights in being campy. There are a lot of federation ads and infomercials. There's a whole religious angle that makes no sense to me. Performances are alright by the main actors, the secondary ones are more problematic. Practical effects are very good and there is some decent gore. CGI effects are pretty awful though, and there are a lot of them unfortunately. The story itself is actually pretty good, but the movie is too long. When you're doing a small budget B movie why not tighten things up a bit. But if it's true that the budget for this movie was around 9 million, they sure got a lot of bang for their buck. Exterior sets in South Africa are neat. Starship Troopers 3 is enjoyable if you are not embarrassed by campiness. Unfortunately you can't really connect or care for any character other than Rico, but he isn't in a good part of the movie. I like this series and hope to see more entries.

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.

I loved the first movie, but the two sequels were a criminal waste of film. The biggest problem as noted by other reviewers is that these two sequels have strayed so far from the vision of Robert Heinlein. There were a few moments (some of the action sequences) in the 3rd movie which were enjoyable. However, the religious overtones that permeated throughout the movie (particularly toward the end) pretty much destroyed this movie. Unfortunately I wasted good money purchasing the movie. However, I no longer own the movie, because I decided that since I have no intention of ever watching it again there was no reason to rob my trash receptacle of its rightful property.