Review of Starship Troopers 3: Marauder (2008) by Lenny R — 22 Oct 2013

Marauder is a pretty bad film if you don't take budget into account. If you take budget into account, Marauder at times is almost as good as the original in terms of parody. Like the first Starship Troopers, Marauder takes modern military in the United States and creates a spoof of the times and today's headlines.

The idea that soldiers are just expendable pieces on the board and nothing less, the ideas behind the funding of the military going into all of the wrong places, etc. They even tackle the whole government overreach, and religion among other themes.

At times the spoof is really funny and well done, but then there's the rest of the movie with special effects that go from decent to shitty in .5 seconds. The acting is terrible, the script appears to have been written by a Kirk Cameron/George Lucas hybrid, and the choreography is just as good as Sean Connery's last fight scenes in the film League of Extraordinary Gentleman.

This film isn't good--but it's not entirely bad either and is kind of funny from time to time.