After a sequel that features no established characters we now get the return of Johnny Rico, hero of the original film. He is now a colonel in charge of an outpost on a farming planet which is threatened by bugs. Old friends Captain Lola Beck and General Dix Hauser visit the outpost along with Sky Marshal Omar Anoke; this spells trouble for Rico; first Hauser tries to have him arrested them following a bug attack which leads to the loss of the outpost he is blamed and sentenced to hang! As the Sky Marshal's ship departs it is damaged and ends up crashing on a bug planet; he along with Captain Beck and handful of other survivors try to contact the fleet but back at headquarters Admiral Enolo Phid tries to suppress this request. When Hauser learns of this he suspects the admiral is attempting to take the sky marshal's position so sets about arranging a rescue mission; to this end Rico is spared from the noose.After a second film that felt more like a horror film this returns to the style of the first film with more battles and the more obvious humour of the various news reports. More importantly it sees the return of Casper Van Dien as Rico; it also took a little more time introducing the new characters; most notably Captain Beck who is possibly more important to the story than Rico. She is played by Jolene Blalock who does a fine job in the role. The rest of the cast are pretty solid too. The story is more than just a 'battle against the bugs' and there are a few twists before the film ends. These twists are pretty good and don't feel forced just to have a twist. The South African locations provide an impressive setting for the bug planet where Beck and the others are marooned. On the down side the lack of budget shows with some of the weaker special effects; unfortunately this includes the explosive finale which should have been spectacular but instead was obvious CGI. Overall I rather enjoyed this; plenty of action; good characters and less than subtle satire.

Looking a bit derivative, with its "Federation" and 'warp drive", the "Starship Troopers" genre in fact goes well back to 1959 Robert Heinlein sci-fi, and it has a lot to say about military-industrial complex scenarios. In fact, Eisenhower was criticised by Heinlein for not being gung-ho enough, and it was ultimately that President who first used the term military-industrial complex, in the context of something to be guarded against.Heinlein thus tended to speak up for the military in his books, while in the films we see (and see satirised and somewhat criticised) the military domination of life, art, commerce, discipline, social norms and everything else (here even also religion) in the fight against arachnid aliens so teeming, so pushy and so utterly ruthless that they make Tolkien's orcs look like teddy-bears. They are cannon-fodder big time, but, buglike indeed, are alarmingly hard to kill, and impossible to eradicate en masse. Hence, more often than not, our hero recruits into the armed forces (which in this dystopia means pretty much everybody) drop like flies themselves. And interestingly, while those in authority are mocked by the film, the ordinary soldiery tend not to be, though they do certainly expire with great regularity, and relatively gorily.In the meantime, there is a (poignantly authentic) touch of the Stalingrads about a situation in which male and female troops live, love, fight and (all-too-soon) die alongside each other as equals. "Starship Troopers" the original was notorious for an ostensibly-titillating, but also groundbreaking, shared-changing-room scene in which males and females routinely appeared naked alongside one another without giving it a second thought. Needless to say, film 3 does not fully resist this temptation, and the point is again made quite impressively.Edward Neumeier's third instalment also emulates its first predecessor of 11 years earlier in pushing the "public information film" as a way of holding its story together, and this remains enjoyable in a way that emphasises how not-altogether-far from this kind of thing we are already. In the first film, these helped the story along, whereas here one is a little hard-pressed to find a story. The thing looks more like a series of vignettes, and not all aspects of the plot seem to follow through. The first section takes place on a farm-colony planet that seems to be in perpetual darkness (some farming!), and it plays with a story about a farmers' revolt against the Federation that seems to go nowhere at all.The film also has a love interest between Gen. Dix Hauser (Boris Kodjoe) and Capt. Lola Beck (Jolene Blalock) - in which Casper Van Dien's Johnny Rico plays gooseberry - that also seems pure artifice, not even convincing in the film's own limited terms.British/Irish actors Amanda Donohoe and Stephen Hogan are on-screen rivals for top jobs that give better value, however, with Hogan's Sky Marshal being as much entertainer as commander-in-chief - a clever plot twist. Since he has come under the spell of a false deity, he contrasts with others who are really part of a religious revival (also somewhat intriguing as a film concept).Ultimately, one mainly watches a film of this type for the above slightly tongue-in-cheek presentation of some future world of ours, as well as to get a good attack of the shudders watching man against beast. Here the film does as it should, giving us the creeps effectively enough, and helping the more imaginative viewer consider the possibility that maybe, just maybe, somewhere out there in endless space...

Starship Troopers 3 succeeds in returning to the original sarcastic oriented plot, against the "Alien" sci-fi horror style they adopted in the second. So, plot and tone wise, it's an advancement. But, what bugs me (no pun intended), its the ST2 and ST3 budget, and the CGI in both. With a budget of 7 million in ST2, against 20 million in ST3, it's really strange that the CGI effects looks a lot better on Starship Troopers 2. OK, the "real" environment in ST3 it's better than in ST2. But I don't believe this explain the cheapness of the CGI bugs in ST3. Environment and scope aside, the Bugs animation and how it blends in the real scene in ST2 matches the quality found in the original movie. It's not the case on ST3, where the bugs clearly doesn't blend well in the scene and, worst, has a very clunky animation. That won't happen in ST2.Considering that in these kind of movie, the most interesting things are the aliens, the special effects, it's very disappointing to see that ST3 doesn't improve over ST2, but it's in reality, worse. Considering the plot and tone is better than ST2, I can say it's a tie at mediocrity.

this movie sucked it's like watching kids TV show or movie like power rangers OK the camera and visual effects looked so crap CGI animating it is very weak. So is the bug animation Even the first movie looked better than this one and that was made in '97. I would say the CGI in this movie is on the same level as Robocop 2 which was made 18 years ago. i know it's low budget b movie but this movie got %50 people still like this crap comeon what's so good about it ? it was boring main girl character was fine but this movie just hopeless and pain i rather watch Doom better then this or Aliens and Battle of Los Angeles and Terminator Salvation were better then crap movie and the big giant monster looks SO terrible there some nudity in movie was OK but people give this %50 percent because it has porn in movie that is just stupid movie i ever saw and story didn't NO SENSE IN EVER make sense the way it edited just looks really bad even i stand the movie no more it's time waster 0/10