Is Flash Gordon actually good?

Flash Gordon sits in the 64.7% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 64.7% of them.

How does Flash Gordon compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Flash Gordon lands in the 61.9% 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 Flash Gordon's score based on?

265 calibrated reviewers stand behind Flash Gordon's score.

1980

global pct

64.7

Film · 1980 · Films · 1980s

Flash Gordon

Name: Flash Gordon
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Released: 1980

Scored from 265 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

64.7%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

61.9%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

85.9%

AI-adjusted percentile

265 calibrated reviewers

Summary

When the tyrannical Ming the Merciless, ruler of the planet Mongo, begins attacking Earth, star quarterback Flash Gordon, travel reporter Dale Arden, and scientist Dr. Hans Zarkov are rocketed into space to stop him. On Mongo, Flash must unite the feuding kingdoms of the hawk-men and tree-dwelling Arborians to overthrow Ming and save Earth.

Flash Gordon is a 1980 action, adventure and science-fiction film.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 265 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 274 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.