Is Death Wish 3 actually good?

Death Wish 3 sits in the 47.5% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 47.5% of them.

How does Death Wish 3 compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Death Wish 3 lands in the 45.3% 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 Wish 3's score based on?

172 calibrated reviewers stand behind Death Wish 3's score.

1985

global pct

47.5

Film · 1985 · Films · 1980s

Death Wish 3

Name: Death Wish 3
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Released: 1985

Scored from 172 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

47.5%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

45.3%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

42.5%

AI-adjusted percentile

172 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Vigilante Paul Kersey returns to New York to visit an old friend, only to find him murdered by a vicious street gang terrorizing the neighborhood. Reluctantly partnering with a hardened police lieutenant who wants the gang dead, Kersey arms himself and the besieged residents for an all-out war against the criminals running the streets.

Death Wish 3 (1985) is a film IMDb files under the action, crime and drama genres.

The cohort it is ranked inside is 1980s films — 3,141 of them. 172 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 176 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 483 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.