Is Kung Fu Hustle actually good?

Kung Fu Hustle sits in the 90.3% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 90.3% of them.

How does Kung Fu Hustle compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2000s, Kung Fu Hustle lands in the 94.0% 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 Kung Fu Hustle's score based on?

379 calibrated reviewers stand behind Kung Fu Hustle's score.

2004

global pct

90.3

Film · 2004 · Films · 2000s

Kung Fu Hustle

Name: Kung Fu Hustle
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Released: 2004

Scored from 379 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).

90.3%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

94.0%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles

99.2%

AI-adjusted percentile

379 calibrated reviewers

Summary

In 1940s Shanghai, a small-time crook aspires to join the ruthless Axe Gang and bullies the residents of a poor tenement called Pig Sty Alley. His scheme backfires when the unassuming tenants reveal themselves as retired kung fu masters, igniting an escalating battle that draws out ever more powerful fighters on both sides.

Kung Fu Hustle is a 2004 action, comedy and fantasy film. Its comedy subtype is Action Comedy.

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 are calibrated for this title, 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.

Is Kung Fu Hustle (2004) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 379
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2000s

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