Gripping story with well-crafted characters

An Exercise In Nonsense

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

In the sequel to Paul Verhoeven's loved/reviled sci-fi film, a group of troopers taking refuge in an abandoned outpost after fighting alien bugs, failing to realize that more danger lays in wait. Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation has a pretty small budget but also a pretty bad script as well since it looks cheap for the entire film. The perfomances were awful and just terrible as a whole alongside the characters of course plus the movie was released in 2004 so it makes sense why it looks so awful since it looks like a straight to dvd garbage like easily. (0/10)

None of the characters who survived in the original Starship Troopers got into this sequel. By accident or design. Good thing Casper Van Dien didn't get into this dreadful and cheap mess.Hero Of The Federation has a group of Troopers separated from the army that captured the brain bug where the original film ended. They take shelter in an abandoned fortress surrounded by the infamous arachnids. Left in that shelter locked in a cold furnace is Richard Burgi, a most unorthodox trooper who was to be disciplined. Turns out he's the one with the best survival instincts.But the supersized arachnids have hatched a plan which I will not reveal but it all ends in a bloody mess with most of the cast killed.This one was done on the cheap and a lot of it in darkness and shadow like those old noir films. But back in the day that was done because those old poverty row studios had minuscule budgets. This was probably done for the same reason. I have no doubt footage from the original was recycled and outtakes as well.Done on the super cheap Heroes Of The Federation ain't a patch on the original.

It must really suck to be one of the people writing all the bad reviews, complaints about every detail of any given movie. I suppose that if being a movie critic is your job, then you must truly believe your trifling is of some benefit to someone, somewhere in the universe. I don't believe it is, but that is just my opinion.Starship Troopers 2 never made any claims to being a great movie with millions invested in special effects, original music, or location filming around the globe. This movie is about entertainment, and it provides that in spades. When I watch a movie, my only reason for doing so is that I want to be entertained. At the end of the movie, if I can say that I was entertained, then the movie did what it was intended to do. At the end of ST2, I felt very well entertained so, to me, the movie was great.I have always valued the decisions we are permitted to make in life, like being able to turn off or switch channels on the TV, or to be able to leave the theatre if I don't like the show. With ST2 I felt no desire to turn it off. The actors were good, the story interesting and the visuals were good. The film is a lot of fun because it is interesting. Obviously, the movie does not stack up well against much more heavily financed films, but for a $7,000,000 budget it did very, very well.To the critics, yes, special effects, original music scores, and an all- star cast may have made it a better visual experience. Then again, maybe not. Even some very big budget films are total failures. Why? Quite simply, they fail to entertain and become tedious and boring. You cannot honestly say that ST2 became tedious or boring. It was very entertaining all the way through. What more can you ask of a movie?If you like the genre and want to feel entertained, then this movie is for you. If you only are able to enjoy the movies that are critically acclaimed, then either find the critics that rate entertainment for what it is supposed to be, entertaining, or just move on.

You know what despite some 'shoddy' parts I think it was good. I mean it was a low budget film and to be honest I enjoyed it. I mean what are you expecting for $7,000,000 avengers had $220,000,000 to play with. With that budget this is not going to attract the worlds best actors and animators nor have the best effects but it was good. Satirical scenes in it too yet I think some actors shone though. And they found ways of making 'the bugs' a far better threat to human kind thus maybe more menacing. Overall you have to take this as a B movie and for a B movie it's damn good so what if the effects look like they were on cheaper software at least they didn't reuse footage the whole time.