Film · 2004 · Films · 2000s
Kung Fu Hustle
Scored from 379 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
In a stylised 1940s Shanghai run by the hatchet-swinging Axe Gang, small-time chancer Sing and his heavyset sidekick try to pass as gangsters and shake down the residents of Pig Sty Alley, a tenement slum too poor for the real gang to bother with. The con misfires: the alley's chain-smoking Landlady and her henpecked husband are not what they seem, and three unassuming tenants — a coolie, a tailor and a noodle seller — turn out to be retired kung fu masters when the Axe Gang arrives in force. The gang escalates by hiring assassins and finally the Beast, and Sing has to decide which side he belongs on. Stephen Chow wrote, directed and stars in this Hong Kong martial arts comedy, with action by Yuen Woo-ping and cartoon-physics gags out of Looney Tunes.
Kung Fu Hustle is a 2004 action, comedy and fantasy film. Its listed language is Cantonese. Its comedy subtype is Action Comedy. It runs 1h 39m. It is rated R. It was made in Hong Kong.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 9,627 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 379 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 393 reviewers with at least two reviews each 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 Kung Fu Hustle 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 379.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
