Is Breakdown actually good?

Breakdown sits in the 86.2% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 86.2% of them.

How does Breakdown compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, Breakdown lands in the 87.6% 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 Breakdown's score based on?

253 calibrated reviewers stand behind Breakdown's score.

1997

global pct

86.2

Film · 1997 · Films · 1990s

Breakdown

Name: Breakdown
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Released: 1997

Scored from 253 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

86.2%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

87.6%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

98.0%

AI-adjusted percentile

253 calibrated reviewers

Summary

While driving cross-country through the desert Southwest, Jeff Taylor's Jeep breaks down and his wife Amy accepts a ride from a friendly trucker to a nearby diner to call for help. When Jeff gets the Jeep running and arrives at the diner, no one will admit to ever seeing her, and he is forced to take desperate measures to find out what happened to his wife.

Breakdown is a 1997 action, crime and drama film.

4,081 other films from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 3 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 253 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 262 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.