10 Underrated Recent Movies That Deserve A Second Chance

It beggars belief why Jason Bourne wasn't received positively. It not only offers up everything that audiences and critics liked about Paul Greengrass' previous two movies (and jettisons everything they didn't from the already-forgotten Legacy), but it advances them into a near-dystopian, post-Snowden world. On paper, that's the perfect way to make a hit against the murk of 2016 blockbusters.

The reaction, instead, was rather muted. Its box office is enough to get it into the black, but no matter how you measure opinion - Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, IMDb, friends, that random guy shouting the street - it's decidedly average, and on the monotonous side at that.

Now maybe I'm skewed a little given that I was never too hot on the previous Bourne films (at least relative to those throwing around the word "modern classic"), so didn't view them quite as untouchable, but Jason Bourne is pretty awesome as a piece of popcorn fodder. Maybe there just wasn't the right marketing, with a trailer hitting at the Super Bowl and a release placement at the tail-end of an exhausting summer; perhaps if viewed in isolation, without the weight of a nine-year gap, it'd be better regarded. Blu-Ray rewatch party?