You see I love tropes, they are what makes genres what they are... and Starship Troopers 2 is full of tropes...
... the problem is that they don't add anything to the genre.
It's not the low budget, the setting is exactly what you would expect from a low budget Sci-Fi flick. It's not the acting, they actually do a good job. It's not even the Fx.
The problem is that it doesn't add anything to the genre. We have seen this before over and over again. We have seen it done better. We have seen it with a better plot that says more . This, well, this is just the same old film rehashed.
The X-Files did it better with Ice.