Is Basic actually good?

Basic sits in the 22.9% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 22.9% of them.

How does Basic compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2000s, Basic lands in the 25.0% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a film for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is Basic's score based on?

207 calibrated reviewers stand behind Basic's score.

2003

global pct

22.9

Film · 2003 · Films · 2000s

Basic

Name: Basic
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Released: 2003

Scored from 207 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).

22.9%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

25.0%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles

7.2%

AI-adjusted percentile

207 calibrated reviewers

Summary

When a notoriously brutal Army Ranger sergeant and most of his squad vanish during a training exercise in a Panamanian jungle storm, a DEA agent and former Ranger is brought in to interrogate the two surviving soldiers. Their conflicting accounts force him to untangle a web of lies, drugs, and betrayal to figure out what really happened.

Basic is a 2003 crime, drama and mystery film.

A second review pool sits behind it as well: 1,451 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them. 207 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 212 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.