Starship Troopers 3: Marauder (2008)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2008
	Director: Ed Neumeier
	Actors: Casper Van Dien (Starship Troopers, Sleepy Hollow), Jolene Blalock (Star Trek Enterprise TV series), Stephen Hogan
	Country: USA
	Genre: Action, SF
	Conditions of visioning: 15.09.2012, Blu-ray, Home cinema
Synopsis: The Federation struggles in its war against the Arachnids. After an advanced post is lost, the Sky Marshall and a bunch of soldiers crash land on a planet. The Bugs may be up to something...
Review: As I am writing an article about the Starship Troopers saga, I wanted to watch this one again for a fresh opinion. The first things I noticed were that the actors played quite badly and the special effects were poor. Then the scale of the action is also limited, probably due to the limited budget. Hopefully the story contains some surprises (the director of this movie is also the writer of the three first of the franchise), especially towards the end where some interesting parallels are done with religion. It is also nice to find again the Starship Troopers universe with Johnny Rico (Van Dien), bugs mutilating soldiers, and the offbeat humour that tries to copy the one Paul Verhoeven initiated in the first movie.
Rating: 5 /10