10 Most Underrated Sci-Fi Movies Of The Decade

5. The World's End (2013)

When people about Edgar Wright's early works, they tend to lavish the first two films in the Cornetto Trilogy with a lot of praise and then the enthusiasm levels drop noticeably.

Released six years after Hot Fuzz - whose meta references were way more on-the-nose and way more of a calling card - The World's End is cleverer and relies significantly less on tricks for its charm. Sadly, the film seemed not to be what most fans wanted of the end of the trilogy, preferring instead some sort of fantasy extended Space episode taking in another genre like Shaun of The Dead and Hot Fuzz had been.

The World's End IS that, but it's more driven by characters and story than by homage and suggestions that it's nowhere near as good as the other two are unfair. It's the least of the trilogy, certainly, but it's still a great sci-fi that brilliantly sends up alien invasion and body-snatcher movies and it has some of Toy Story's mortality anxiety about it and Simon Pegg's best ever performance.