Film · 2002 · Films · 2000s
Equilibrium
Scored from 810 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
In a dystopian future where emotions are criminalized and suppressed through mandatory medication, a by-the-book law enforcement officer (Grammaton Cleric) begins to experience forbidden feelings after accidentally missing a dose. As he awakens to human emotion, he becomes a threat to the totalitarian system he serves.
Equilibrium is a 2002 science fiction, action and thriller film starring Christian Bale, Taye Diggs and Dominic Swain. It runs 1h 47m. Kurt Wimmer directed it. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Its certificate is R.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,846 2000s films, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 810 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 860 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 16,201 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 Equilibrium 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 810.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
