Insanely brutal and distressingly gruesome, Starship Troopers appeared amid a whirlwind of controversy when it was first released in 1997.
Accusations of glorifying violence, right-wing militarism and fascism coupled with a perceived lack of depth kept cinema audiences well away.
But a quarter of a decade on, it appears Starship Troopers’ biting satire may have gone over a lot of people’s heads at the time.
