Film · 2008 · Films · 2000s
Killer Bean Forever
Scored from 37 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
Killer Bean is a trench-coated assassin in a city where everyone is an anthropomorphic bean, and he has turned on the crime syndicate he once killed for, working his way toward the boss who now wants him dead. The syndicate sends its own gunmen after him, while a police detective tries to make sense of a body count no lone hitman should be able to produce. Much of the running time is given over to extended, physics-heavy shootouts and martial-arts fights. The film is an independent CG-animated action feature made almost single-handedly by animator Jeff Lew, expanding the Killer Bean shorts he had released years earlier.
Killer Bean Forever (2008) is a film IMDb files under the action, adventure and animation genres. It runs 1h 22m. Its country of origin is listed as the United States.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 36 of whom clear the calibration test. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,846 2000s films, not against the whole corpus. Only 37 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 44 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track.
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 Killer Bean Forever 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 37.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
