Film · 2005 · Films · 2000s
King Kong
Scored from 1,876 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
A film production crew travels to an uncharted island called Skull Island to shoot a movie. Upon arrival, they discover the island is inhabited by prehistoric creatures and a massive ape known as King Kong. As the crew attempts to capture Kong for exhibition, they must fight for survival against the island's dangers and Kong's relentless pursuit.
King Kong is a 2005 action, adventure and drama film starring Naomi Watts, Jack Black and Adrien Brody. It runs 3h 7m. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Peter Jackson directed it. Its certificate is PG-13.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 276,596 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 1,876 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 1,980 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.
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 King Kong 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 1,876.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
