10 Most Underrated Sci-Fi Movies Of The Decade

9. Colossal (2016)

Sci-fi isn't always about space or time exploration. Sometimes, a film comes along with a seemingly nonsensical high-concept premise and wades into stranger waters. Part character piece, part monster movie and part black comic sci-fi, Nacho Vigalondo's Colossal is all of those things and somehow also manages to find space for a commentary about abusive relationship dynamics and addiction.

This is not your easy Sunday afternoon watching, but it's also not impenetrable macabre either. It can be very funny, it is very entertaining and it features one of Anne Hathaway's most underrated performances as an unemployed, alcoholic writer who finds herself accidentally able to manifest a monster that terrorises Seoul. How anyone started with that first part and ended with the latter is anyone's guess, but that's always part of the joy of Vigalondo's genre- and expectation challenging work.

It might have been reviewed well, but it made very little money (though it cost not a lot either) and it seems audiences simply didn't come out to see Hathaway basically VRing as a rampaging monster. WHY WOULDN'T YOU?!