Is Escape from New York actually good?

Escape from New York sits in the 73.4% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 73.4% of them.

How does Escape from New York compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Escape from New York lands in the 70.5% 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 Escape from New York's score based on?

378 calibrated reviewers stand behind Escape from New York's score.

1981

global pct

73.4

Film · 1981 · Films · 1980s

Escape from New York

Name: Escape from New York
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Released: 1981

Scored from 378 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

73.4%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

70.5%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

93.8%

AI-adjusted percentile

378 calibrated reviewers

Summary

In a dystopian 1997, Manhattan has been walled off as a maximum-security prison. When Air Force One crashes inside after a hijacking, the President is taken hostage by the inmates. Authorities give Snake Plissken, a convicted soldier turned outlaw, 24 hours to go in and bring the President out alive, with explosive charges in his neck as motivation.

Escape from New York (1981) is a film IMDb files under the action, adventure and science-fiction genres.

The cohort it is ranked inside is 1980s films — 3,141 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 378 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 389 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.

Is Escape from New York (1981) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 378
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1980s

What else scores like Escape from New York?