Is JCVD actually good?

JCVD sits in the 79.6% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 79.6% of them.

How does JCVD compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2000s, JCVD lands in the 85.1% 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 JCVD's score based on?

125 calibrated reviewers stand behind JCVD's score.

2008

global pct

79.6

Film · 2008 · Films · 2000s

JCVD

Name: JCVD
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Released: 2008

Scored from 125 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).

79.6%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

85.1%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles

94.3%

AI-adjusted percentile

125 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A fictionalized version of action star Jean-Claude Van Damme, broke and battered by a custody battle, returns to his hometown of Brussels and walks into a post office robbery in progress. Mistaken by police and media as the perpetrator, he finds himself trapped inside as a hostage negotiator-turned-suspect, forced to confront his fading career and public persona.

JCVD is a 2008 comedy, crime and drama film. Its comedy subtype is Dark Comedy.

125 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 129 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 2,050 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 7,846 other films from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside.

Is JCVD (2008) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 125
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2000s

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