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Starship Troopers: Traitor of Mars

Starship Troopers: Traitor of Mars (2017)

August. 21,2017
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5.5
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R
| Animation Action Science Fiction

Federation trooper Johnny Rico is ordered to work with a group of new recruits on a satellite station on Mars, where giant bugs have decided to target their next attack.

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Listonixio
2017/08/21

Fresh and Exciting

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Portia Hilton
2017/08/22

Blistering performances.

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Fatma Suarez
2017/08/23

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

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Fleur
2017/08/24

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

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Mark Turner
2017/08/25

Believe it or not it's been 20 years since the original STARSHIP TROOPERS hit the screen. The movie was an amazing science fiction spectacle that brought to life the visions of author Robert J. Heinlein. Altered slightly the film showed a battle hungry group of soldiers battling to save the Earth from an invasion of bug styled creatures. Since the film came out there have been 4 sequels including this one, the latest.The story opens with a group of new soldiers, natives of Mars, who have joined the military to protect their planet from any potential invasions. At the helm of training these untested soldiers is world weary warrior Johnny Rico (Casper Van Dien), the main hero of the first film. Scarred and missing an eye he runs them through simulation after simulation and the end results are not good. Raw and untrained they seem to lack the killer instinct and comradery it will take to make a formidable fighting force.As their training is going on the Federation has launched a massive attack on the bugs as they call these invaders. Led by Johnny's one time pal Carmen Ibanez (Luci Christian) the fleet arrives expected and taking on casualties. During the middle of this battle Carmen is telepathically contacted by Carl Jenkins (Justin Doran) to leave the battle and head for Mars. Before he can explain he is captured by a group as yet unidentified.As the film progresses we learn that Sky Marshal Amy Snapp (Emily Neves) is setting things in motion to place herself in a position of power greater than she already has. The Martians were contemplating leaving the Federation and in an effort to make that a decision not worth taking she has set up a bug invasion on Mars knowing they are unprepared to defend yet. Her plan is for the planet to fall and when that happens blow it up, a word of warning to other planets. But she didn't count on Rico and his troops.To begin with this time around the film is all CGI which doesn't take anything away when you take into consideration all of the effects for the live action films were CGI. The story is less complicated than you would think and it moves along quickly setting up the action sequences while providing more depth of story than one might expect. The end result is a worthwhile addition to the series and fun for sci-fi fans as well as those of the films.What really makes this one nice is the fact that both Casper Van Dien and Dina Meyers have returned for this one. Meyers returns as Dizzy Flores, Ricco's love interest from the first film who was killed in the same. This time around Dizzy is a mirage, an image sent to Ricco's mind to keep him moving forward. Both of these actors have gone on to other films so it is nice to see them return to the movie that moved the two of them forward at the time. Hopefully more will decide to follow suit should they go onward with more movies like this.If you're a fan of the films you'll want to add this one to your collection. It may be steering away from the anti-military sentiment of the first film but the story of battling against bugs rages on.

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fcabanski
2017/08/26

Or is it some cut scenes are missing their video game? This movie wouldn't be bad if it was delivered in short segments around video game play. But as a movie, it leaves a lot to be desired.That's not accurate. It leaves everything to be desired.The core message in the movie is George W. Bush masterminded the 9/11 attack to gain popularity and steal the oil in Iraq. It's a rotten message, and the delivery is very poorly done.Everything about this movie is derivative. Elements that were clever in the 80's and 90's, like the news reports delivering important information and mood, are now just tired reruns. Just using those news reports with the sarcastic tone would be bad enough, but in this movie the news reports often repeat information that was just given. So any chance of their being interesting or necessary is lost in a wave of redundancy.The voice acting is painful to hear. Many of the female characters have a habit of adding an extra syllable to the end of words - like pouty teenage girls do." If it's not an extra syllable, it's a big intake of breath."Why are you doing this to me-uh?" "Send the ships (huhhhh)" It's very bad.Characters go from absolute panic to over confident swagger to absolute panic to overconfident swagger - repeat the cycle 10 more times - in the same scene. It happens scene after scene. Are they overconfident veterans or panicked kids? It'f fine to be both at different times, but it's not fine to be both at the same time.The shifting attitude of the characters goes right along with the overuse of the in-helmet, close up view of a panicked face. That's only broken up by the in-helmet, close up view of an overconfident face. It's shots by the numbers.The story is by the numbers. An egotistical leader plots evil doings to get the people on her side. One man uncovers the plot, and he pulls the two heroes into the standard busting the conspiracy action. Star Trek" The Undiscovered Country did it much better.There's some decent action buried in this mess, but it's buried too deep and it's too infrequent. That's where a video game would come in handy. If a player could get immersed in living the action for long stints between the awful movie, it would serve as glue that held the narrative together.But the video game is absent along with entertainment value.

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Bence Illés
2017/08/27

I'm giving it 3 stars because of the voice actors (original cast). Other than that, the film is garbage. I'm no military expert but the military/logical errors in the movie are terrible. It feels like the who script, story was written for some 10 year olds. Full of boring, old clichés and jokes that makes you want to fall asleep. If you really have nothing else to do, watch it, but even brushing your teeth for 1,5 hours is more entertaining than this. Such a shame they killed this great franchise after the first movie.

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pway82
2017/08/28

Enjoying the Starship Troopers franchise is a hard thing to do. From the excellent Paul Verhoeven live-action movie to the abysmal 2 sequels, the interesting Roughnecks animated series and the decent first CGI movie we now have again arrived at a low point. While the first CGI movie managed to combine elements of the book and the first movie into a gorgeous present to the fans, Traitor of Mars is a messy, hastily written mess, with dialogue so cheesy it makes you cringe. The sad part is that they clearly improved in the animation department, especially when it comes to the characters movements, which looked quite stiff in it's predecessor. You can also see that they spend a lot of time in designing believable equipment and sprinkling several nods to the franchise into the world. But all of this effort is negated by a lazy script, the unnecessary addition of one of the most boring villains in movie history, and voice acting so horrible it reminds you of children's cartoons from the 80s.

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