Starship Troopers 3: Marauder

• Stargate: Continuum
• Iron Man (Single-Disc Edition)
• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Single Disc)
• Incredible Hulk (Widescreen Edition)
• Starship Troopers 2 - Hero of the Federation
• The Forbidden Kingdom
• Doomsday (Unrated Widescreen Edition)
• Hellboy II: The Golden Army (3 Disc Special Edition)
• Journey to the Center of the Earth
• 10,000 B.C.

I've read the book, I've watched all 3 movies, and I've seen the CG cartoon, and the 3rd movie by far is the worst. Read the book, watch the cg series, watch the 1st movie, if you must watch the 2nd movie, but you really can live without watching this. It must have taken a lot of work, but they managed to make the third movie in the series worse than the second. What could have been the one redeeming part about the movie, which also gives it's name to the movie: Marauder - ie Mechs, are wasted because they are not introduced until the end of the movie for about 1 minute of air time. This is also when the movie has it's obligatory nudity scenes, because you know you have to get naked before you get into a mech. The part I was most amused by: in the beginning of the movie, one of the characters says something so stupid that the actor next to her looks at her with this expression on his face of "Really, you just said that." It sets the tone for the next two hours of stupidity.

Even more ridiculous is the tough female trooper getting on her knees and praying with the wimpy blonde at the end, culminating in rescue by their "angels." First, the tough female trooper was completely untrue to her character, up to this point in the movie, in going along with that. *pant*pant*pant* .nuff said.

It was clear from almost the beginning that the Sky Marshal was a bug sympathizer, and ridiculous in the extreme to believe that he wouldn't have tipped his hand, til the end, that his conversion to religion was a conversion to bug religion. I bought this movie to watch science fiction, not religious fiction.

The religion of hating crappy movies, that is. This one was actually pretty good throughout, until it became clear that the "Dis on the Fool Christian" motif was morphing into a "Clap Your Hands and Click Your Heels Three Times for Jesus and He'll Save You from All Physical Harm" motif.

GIVE ME THE ABILITY TO GIVE A BOMB LIKE THIS NO STARS, PLEASE, AMAZON. Second, yeah, there are lots of action movies where improbable rescues happen at just the right time, but for crying out loud, PAINT A BIG CRUCIFIX ON THE FRIGGIN' COVER OF THE DVD PACKAGE TO WARN US THAT THIS MOVIE IS A BIG FAT FAIRY-TALE ADVERTISEMENT FOR JESUS OF FRIGGIN' NAZARETH.

And why do I have to give it even one star.

It has lots of actiony goodness and seems to be a parable of the Iraqi war. Its hard to tell what to make of this movie. but then it becomes this oddly religious movie that either celebrates or mocks Christianity and it is hard to tell which. The religious aspects clearly don't belong in this, and one has to wonder if they had to put it in to get Casper Van Dien to participate, as he has got religion in recent years. I don't know if I liked this movie or not-I think I would've had they NOT included the rediculous religious stuff.

I WANT MORE STARSHIP TROOPERS. It's cheap, overdue, but casper is back and Verhoven is as sharp as ever with satire. If I had 200 million euros I could do a bang-up job on special effects. These guys probably had 2 mill. for the whole budget.