STARSHIP TROOPERS 3: MARAUDER (DVD Review) - 31/8/08

After the dire sequel to the original film we now take the plunge into "Starship Troopers 3: Marauder" and things are obviously not looking good as this was a Straight To DVD Release. Casper Van Dien shows up and is so old & craggy in the first scenes I didn't recognise him and Jolene Blalock crops up later as she assumingly doesn't have a career after "Star Trek Enterprise" which I find strange as she is an accomplished actress? With more budget than the previous entry in the series - This is both awful & good at the same time? Well how is this? Well we get better CGI in some scenes and really terrible CGI in others - Some scenes make you think you are watching a video game. The annoying adverts through-out are just padding and then you come to other scenes which would not be out of place in a multi-million dollar sci-fi actioner - One scene featuring a desolate sea shore with an unusual skyline alongside a crashed space-pod with strange jagged natural features pointing into the air. We also get some truly terrible SFX and then some SFX that really stands out. The guns in close-up not only look plastic they are plastic! Handled badly and with no idea what a real weapon would do the cast lag them around as the toys they are. Behind the players a conspiracy turns out to be anything but and we hark back to the original with some follow-on ideas. A mish-mash of everything this is neither good or bad.

A new planet, a new bug war - Fascism gets another day pass and new bugs come calling. Things are not what they seem and there is lots of gore and explosions. Better than sequel two - But not by much!