Is Blue Thunder actually good?

Blue Thunder sits in the 66.7% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 66.7% of them.

How does Blue Thunder compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Blue Thunder lands in the 63.9% 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 Blue Thunder's score based on?

95 calibrated reviewers stand behind Blue Thunder's score.

1983

global pct

66.7

Film · 1983 · Films · 1980s

Blue Thunder

Name: Blue Thunder
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Released: 1983

Scored from 95 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

66.7%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

63.9%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

83.5%

AI-adjusted percentile

95 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Released in 1983, Blue Thunder is an action, crime and drama film.

Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 279 of whom clear the calibration test. Only 95 of its IMDb reviewers are calibrated, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 97 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1980s films — 3,141 of them.