10 Surprisingly Awesome 2021 Movies You Probably Missed

10. Army Of Thieves

Though Zack Snyder's Army of the Dead received broadly positive reviews from critics, the general audience response was decidedly more mixed, because let's be honest, it's a big 'ol mess of a movie.

While fitfully entertaining, it's also a wildly over-indulgent car crash of questionable storytelling and irritating characters, exacerbated by a brutal 148-minute runtime.

When it was revealed that a spin-off film had been shot, many didn't even bother giving it a second look on the basis that it'd simply be more of the same.

But that's not really being fair to Army of Thieves, which shifts away from the undead shenanigans of Snyder's film towards an hilariously self-aware heist yarn centered around Army of the Dead's fan favourite character Ludwig Dieter (Matthias Schweighöfer, who also directed the film).

It's certainly a tad too long, but between its likeable cast, witty dialogue, and madcap action, this is infinitely more charming and consistent than the film that spawned it.