Film · 2002 · Films · 2000s
Hero
Scored from 551 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
A nameless warrior arrives at the imperial palace claiming to have defeated three legendary assassins—Sky, Flying Snow, and Broken Sword—who were plotting against the king. The warrior recounts his encounters with each assassin while the king considers granting him an audience.
Released in 2002, Hero is an action, drama and martial arts film. Jet Li, Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Maggie Cheung head the billed cast. It plays in Mandarin Chinese. It runs 1h 59m and carries a PG-13 certificate. Its country of origin is listed as China. Zhang Yimou directed it.
The calibrated figure is built from 551 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 584 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 10,159 of whom clear the calibration test. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,846 2000s films, not against the whole corpus.
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 Hero 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 551.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
