Customer Reviews
ok, so here is what i think... - By: Mr. I. Powell Morley, 13 Nov 2008 
yes this is not the most AMAZING SST film that they have made, the first one is totally dominant over MANY filmsin my eyes & i NEVER get bored of it. I am a SST fanatic, iv seen the tv series (Starship Troopers: Roughnecks) & thought that was just as good as the first film, iv read the book & i have seen the 2nd of the 3 SST films... yes the second as most people agree, was not starship troopers, it lacked the quality, however, it was still a reasonable film but not classed as a SSTin my eyes. Now the third film... i saw the trailer & thought to myself "this is going to be RUBBISH!" well, it is better than it looked, i enjoyed the film (minus the TERRIBLE acting & the low budget, which they should have waited upon & not rushed it) & then another thing i disliked was the "marauder"in the title... they are HARDLYin the film, why call it Marauders when they are seen on average of 5 minutes maximum a time?... i am quite dissapointed yet still enjoyed the movie
do not expect the 1st...or 2nd. - By: Demon, 12 Nov 2008 
It's okay. It has a bit of a twist. The scenary works & some of the action is fine. I think too much was spent on the fed propaganda. They could of reduced them & pushed up the budget on effectsin the main story.
Storywise it's okay but has the director suddenly got religious?
I loved the first film. This could have been almost as good!
Uber Cheese - By: Titanium Rex, 31 Oct 2008 Its cheesey, full fat, mature & smelly. But funin a kind of post Friday night, curry & beer session kind of way. If you liked the first film, you may enjoy this.
Oh Dear! - By: D. G. Parrott, 26 Oct 2008 
After the totally abysmal Starship Troopers 2, when I saw the adverts for this, the thirdin the Starship movies, I honestly thought that it was a return to form, a worthy follow up to the first utterly brilliant movie...
Then I watched the DVD - And my God I wish I hadn't... I stuck with it & watched the whole damn thing with mounting disappointment, both Casper van Dien & Jolene Blalock looked as if they wished they were somewhere else... The acting was wooden, the script cheesy & cringeworthy & the special effects looked as if they just hadn't bothered!
Please, take a tip... Don't buy this DVD, you are better off waiting for it to come on Sky Movies, believe me, you'll be grateful you saved your money & waited.
Watchable sequel - a good day to buy - By: Cartimand, 18 Oct 2008 **** spoilers ****
Whilst Starship Troopers 2 had its moments, its lack of scope doomed it to pale into insignificance compared with the stunning original movie. This third helping has a look & feel far more like the first movie & I for one enjoyed it very much.
Great to have Casper Van Dien back as the iconic Johnny Rico and, spookily, not looking a day older (has he got a holographic picture of himself looking old & gnarly upin his attic somewhere?). No-one can impart so much into the one word OUTSTANDING as Casper! The eye-candy for us blokes is mainly courtesy of the stunningly beautiful Marnette Patterson as the naive but gutsy Holly Little (more on her later), French actress Cécile Breccia as the rather intense lieutenant Link Manion (who gets the movie's corniest line - "I like my bugs friedin the morning") and, of course, that woman from Enterprise with the funny lips.
Onto the plot; humans suffer an ignoble defeat, leaving a handful of survivors, including one VIP, forced to yomp across a desert planet crawling with bugs. Rico leads a crack team equipped with the latest technology - the Marauder (think Battletech),in a rescue attempt. Doesn't sound like much does it? But that's not the point. The fairly flimsy plot serves admirably as a frame on which to hang some stunning action scenarios & to develop a bitter, cynical political ethos. From the opening battle on frontier planet Roku San, to the drama on the incongruously beautiful desertscape of OM-1, the movie provides entertaining adrenaline-filled thrills for most of the time. Then there are the myriad sub-plots - the conflicting emotions between friendship & duty displayed by General Dix, the subversion of the Sky Marshall, the ruthless ambition of Admiral Phid and, of course, the cynical manipulation of religion. The latter may upset those of a particularly devout persuasion, but the touching faith & stoicism of Holly Little engineers a kind of victoryin the end.
For me though, the film works best at stirring dissonant emotions amongst the viewer. We are supposed to be rooting for the humans aren't we? And yet the Federation is brutally totalitarian, even executing peace protestors. Its leaders are Mau/Hitler/Stalin/Pol Pot all rolled into one. This seeming incongruity along with the overriding message throughout that social responsibility entails individual sacrifice is pretty muchin keeping with Robert Heinlein's original sci-fi novel.
The DVD presentation includes exceptionally good surround sound (especially during those battle scenes) & is decently furnished with extra features.
I am a little surprised at the very negative reviews. OK so SS3 isn't quite Oscar-material, but I still found it extremely entertaining. There's certainly lifein this franchise yet!
