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• Evolution: The Bugs of Starship Troopers 3 Featurette

• Enlist: Marauders Mobile Infantry Featurette

• "Marauder Mode" Picture in Picture

• Interactive Menus

• Extended Music Video "It's a Good ay to Die"

Special Feature Rating:

As the movie begins, we discover the Federation is embroiled in "Bug War 2" and the front line is on a farming planet called Roku San. Johnny Rico (Casper Van Dien, Starship Troopers) is back. Now a colonel, he's one of the ranking officers at the military installation that is defended by an electrified perimeter that is effective at controlling the bug problem outside its walls. The Federation's singing Sky Marshall (with whom audiences are encouraged to sing along with karaoke-style at one point on the FedNet -- can this franchise sink any lower?) arrives for a tour of the facility on a shuttle piloted by Captain Lola Beck (Blalock). Soon thereafter, the compound's perimeter goes down and the bugs attack, with the Sky Marshall and Captain Beck barely escaping. Later, Rico is arrested and sentenced to hang for the defeat, but when word comes down that the Sky Marshall has been stranded on a hostile planet deep inside the Arachnid Quarantine Zone, Rico's life is spared and he'll lead a group of troopers armed with a brand new weapon to save the Sky Marshall and perhaps deal a devastating blow to the bugs.  

Story Rating:

Detail is solid but sometimes obscured by darkness. Like the original Starship Troopers, detail in the uniforms and close-ups is fantastic. Blacks are solid but crushing is sometimes a problem. The picture features very little in the way of color during its first act on Roku San. Blues, grays, and blacks permeate the picture, with reds only used for blood and gore. On the planet where Beck and the Sky Marshall crash land, the bright, sunlit beach allows for detail to stand out, and the image looks fantastic. It plays in stark contrast to the first third of the film, and it's a nice respite from the dark, drab nature of parts of the movie.  Although this is, I think, the desired effect.

Picture Rating:

The entire track has a unique presence. Background music in low volume is played in most scenes to give a nice military feel, effects are not as good as the original Starship Troopers movie, gunfire is loud and bass and surround presence is sporadic. It is not until chapter three when the bugs break the perimeter that the sound kicks in to high gear. Explosions, the shrieks of bugs, radio chatter, and gunfire create a nice sound field.  Again this would appear to be the desired effect.

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