8 Most Underrated Movies From Summer 2016

Jason Bourne was coming back and everyone was f*cking amped. The dream team of original star Matt Damon and defining director Paul Greengrass were back, the trailer had a Twitter-stopping fight club KO and, with a totally different landscape of espionage, this was a late-in-the-day sequel everyone seemed on board with. What happened?

The reviews weren't the worst of any movie this summer, but they were a cut below average, giving it a Rotten rating (a series' first for Damon), with a general sense of lethargy. Ignoring the question of where that was in the pre-release hype, I just can't agree with such dismissals. Jason Bourne plays as both a refined compendium of everything disparately great in the original films and as a 2016 spy thriller, with a chase set during an Athens feeling like it's some 1970s post-apocalyptic sci-fi and chatter about Snowden and privacy worryingly prevalent (especially in the wake of WhatsApp's change in security).

I've always found the love/hate for various entries of the Bourne series rather arbitrary - Legacy isn't as bad as some die-hard felt, Ultimatum was incredibly shaky from a plot standpoint and Identity is unfairly overlooked - and was thus less hyped for The Bourne Jason than everyone else, but this proved to not only be a serviceable continuation that left the door slightly ajar, but the best film in the series yet.

What's your most underrated movie of summer 2016? Have your say down in the comments.