Dominic Mason I come here from having a very battered, much read paperback of Heinlein's Starship Troopers, and having watched and (I think) understood the Paul Verhoeven film.If you look at that film as wide angle view of the Human Vs Bugs war, giving you the background, an overview, and the situation, the technology, the sciences of the two enemies, and so on, then this is a very focused film.If you haven't seen Starship Troopers then this is just a often gruesome, gory - and occasionally very funny - film without much context. As such, it's not terrible, but it doesn't do much to help itself. It needs the context - as a standalone film it doesn't really live up to expectations.If you have the context, then it's a intense (and gory, gruesome, bloody) very focused part of a much bigger picture.And this is where we get to the spoilers. So if you don't want to know, and you have seen (and got) Paul Verhoeven's film, then I'd say watch this film, and don't read on.This is part of a plot to insert an "enemy within" into the Human High Command - and you can take that as literally as you want to - by having an isolated, small band of survivors get themselves rescued against overwhelming odds.I think it's quite well done, it's a fair bit more gory than the first film, so if you have a delicate stomach, this probably isn't for you.I just don't think it works as a film, by itself, in isolation. But as a small part of "Starship Troopers" - as a snapshot of a few days in an ongoing war, as part of a series, then I think it works far better than the rating (currently 3.5) suggests.Just don't be eating your dinner when watching it... And if you suffer from arachnophobia, then you probably aren't reading this anyway...

James Jenkins You know what despite some 'shoddy' parts I think it was good. I mean it was a low budget film and to be honest I enjoyed it. I mean what are you expecting for $7,000,000 avengers had $220,000,000 to play with. With that budget this is not going to attract the worlds best actors and animators nor have the best effects but it was good. Satirical scenes in it too yet I think some actors shone though. And they found ways of making 'the bugs' a far better threat to human kind thus maybe more menacing. Overall you have to take this as a B movie and for a B movie it's damn good so what if the effects look like they were on cheaper software at least they didn't reuse footage the whole time.

herurubin people always complain about sequels, one of the main complaints is sequels tend to be a rehashing of the same material or the same story except bigger and worse... like MIB2 Starship Troopers 2 feels like it is part of the same universe as part 1... but in a small, cramped, disgusting corner of that universe I think if this film was marketed differently if would have been better received.. it should have been titled "Starship Troopers: The Hero of the Republic" as it doesn't advance the story presented in the first outing.Starship Troopers 3 Marauder plays more like a true sequel Forget about the world that exists outside this film, and enjoy it on it's own merits... pretend it's called "Space Soldiers" and you'll discover it's a fantastic, tense, scary with amazing creature designs that will give you the creeps...

peter-the-tea-drinker This could have been a great B movie. It wasn't. While the plot is fairly predictable, there's a lot of small (if insignificant) twists to it. It's cliché and cheesy, but the twists and turns make it more like a cheese platter than soggy cheddar on toast. The biggest problem was the opening sequence. It was meant to start with an epic battle scene, but they apparently forgot to budget for it. At all. The first 6 minutes is far lower quality than the rest of the movie (which itself is solidly B grade, costing just 5% of the original), and consists almost entirely of close ups of the cast shouting at each other and pretending to shoot.After the first few minutes, it gets better. The camera zooms out from the charters' nose hairs, because they no longer have to hide their lack of a set. It then becomes a fairly predicable horror movie, with a few terrible action scenes (which would have been better if they had a bigger budget, but isn't as abysmal as the opening).If they dropped the first 6 minutes, and pretty much all the other action scenes, it wouldn't be such a bad B movie. The rest is actually quite enjoyable, if your not squeamish (there's some gory bits).