12 Most Underrated Movies Of 2017

You’d think a film that brought as popular a director as Steven Soderbergh out of his self-imposed retirement might’ve gotten a little more attention but the critic-beloved, audience-neglected Logan Lucky somehow managed to become one of 2017’s best reviewed box office flops.

A high-octane comedy heist, Logan Lucky stars Channing Tatum as Jimmy Logan, the leader of a motley crew of petty criminals – including his one-armed Iraq War veteran brother Clyde (Adam Driver) and Daniel Craig’s appropriately named bleach blonde safecracker and explosives expert Joe Bang – who carry out a robbery at the racing track he’s recently been fired from.

Though it boasts a great cast, a smartly funny script and a preposterous but highly entertaining plot Logan Lucky floundered at the box office earning just $47.3 million on a $29 million budget which is a pretty significant flop by Hollywood standards.

Comparisons to Soderbergh’s Ocean’s movies were inevitable and often unfavourable but Logan Lucky is more than just a blue-collar rip-off of Ocean’s Eleven – it’s a heist movie with heart.