Film · 1998 · Films · 1990s
Armageddon
Scored from 888 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
When a massive asteroid threatens to impact Earth, NASA recruits a team of elite oil drillers led by Harry Stamper to travel to the asteroid and detonate a nuclear bomb from within to save humanity. The drillers must overcome personal conflicts and technical challenges to complete their mission in space.
Armageddon (1998) is a film IMDb files under the action, adventure and science fiction genres. It runs 2h 31m and carries a PG-13 certificate. It was made in the United States. It stars Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck and Liv Tyler. It was directed by Michael Bay.
888 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 949 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 28,563 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1990s films — 4,082 of them.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where Armageddon lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 1990s (4,082 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 888.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
