Review of
Starship Troopers 3 Marauder,
DVD
Two out of five stars
Horrible premise and execution
As a reader of
the original “Starship Troopers” novel by the great Robert Heinlein, I have a predilection
to enjoy the movies based on the fight to the death of the species between
humans and the bugs. Yet, this movie is just so bad that it is hard to find
good points to relate. It is bad in plot, acting, execution and organization.
While Heinlein
was clearly a fan of authoritarian, even militaristic governments, it is
unlikely that he would have approved of the Federation in this movie.
Dissidents, even those based on fundamental positions of trying to understand
the enemy, are routinely publicly executed. The Federation has developed a
powerful weapon called the “Q-bomb,” that is capable of destroying a planet. More
reasonable voices in the Federation question whether the destruction of a
planet is the proper course of action. To do so can lead to a public hanging.
The Christian religion is depicted in a very weird and
unproductive way, linked in rather odd ways to some form of bug religion. There
is also an odd romance as well as infighting between factions of the Federation
intelligence services.
At times
incoherent and yet predictable, this is a movie that one can watch, just not
with a great deal of enthusiasm.
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