Film · 2020 · Films · 2020s
Bad Boys for Life
Scored from 982 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
Miami detectives Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett face a new threat connected to Mike's past, forcing the aging partners to confront old enemies and fight for their partnership. As they investigate a cartel-related conspiracy, they uncover dangerous secrets that threaten everything they've worked for.
Bad Boys for Life is a 2020 action, comedy and crime film starring Will Smith, Martin Lawrence and Vanessa Hudgens. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Its certificate is R. Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah directed it. Inside comedy it is classed as Action Comedy. It runs 2h 4m.
The calibrated figure is built from 982 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 1,036 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,635 of whom clear the calibration test. 7,929 other films from the 2020s form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 Bad Boys for Life 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 · 2020s (7,930 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 982.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
