Film · 2008 · Films · 2000s
Eagle Eye
Scored from 359 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
After his twin brother's mysterious death, slacker Jerry Shaw is contacted by a woman's voice on his phone who frames him for terrorism and forces him into a series of escalating tasks. He's thrown together with a single mother coerced by the same caller threatening her son, and the two race across the country while uncovering who, or what, is orchestrating their every move.
Eagle Eye is a 2008 action, mystery and thriller film.
The calibrated figure is built from 359 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 367 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,846 2000s films, not against the whole corpus. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 13,091 of whom clear the calibration test.
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 Eagle Eye 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 · 2000s (7,847 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 359.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
