Is Death Race actually good?

Death Race sits in the 52.8% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 52.8% of them.

How does Death Race compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2000s, Death Race lands in the 58.2% 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 Death Race's score based on?

243 calibrated reviewers stand behind Death Race's score.

2008

global pct

52.8

Film · 2008 · Films · 2000s

Death Race

Name: Death Race
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Released: 2008

Scored from 243 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).

52.8%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

58.2%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles

60.2%

AI-adjusted percentile

243 calibrated reviewers

Summary

In a near-future America where prisons are run for profit, convicted inmates compete in a brutal televised car race called Death Race, where weaponized vehicles battle for survival and the chance at freedom. Framed for his wife's murder, former race car driver Jensen Ames is coerced by the warden into assuming the masked persona of the legendary driver Frankenstein to boost ratings, while plotting his own escape.

Released in 2008, Death Race is an action, science-fiction and thriller film.

Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 9,460 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 243 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 245 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.

Is Death Race (2008) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 243
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2000s

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