Film · 2000 · Films · 2000s
Battlefield Earth
Scored from 763 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
In a distant future, alien invaders called the Psychlos have enslaved humanity for centuries. A young human named Jonnie Goodboy Tyler leads a rebellion against the alien occupiers. As the humans discover weapons and technology to fight back, they begin to challenge Psychlo dominance and plan a daring counterattack to liberate Earth.
Battlefield Earth (2000) is a film IMDb files under the science fiction, action and adventure genres. It was directed by Roger Christian. The runtime is 118 minutes. It stars John Travolta, Barry Pepper and Forest Whitaker. It was made in the United States. It is rated PG-13.
763 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 805 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 2,576 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 7,846 other films from the 2000s 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 Battlefield Earth 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 · 2000s (7,847 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 763.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
