Film · 1999 · Films · 1990s
Deep Blue Sea
Scored from 479 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
A team of researchers working on a genetic cure for Alzheimer's disease at an underwater facility discovers that their genetically enhanced sharks have become highly intelligent and deadly. When one of the creatures escapes, the trapped scientists must fight for survival against a predator far more dangerous than nature intended.
Renny Harlin directed Deep Blue Sea, a horror, thriller and science-fiction film from 1999. It was made in the United States. It stars Samuel L. Jackson, Thomas Jane and Saffron Burrows. It is rated R. The runtime is 111 minutes.
4,081 other films from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside. 479 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 497 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.
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 Deep Blue Sea 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 · 1990s (4,082 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 479.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
