Film · 2002 · Films · 2000s
Kung Pow: Enter the Fist
Scored from 268 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
A martial artist known as The Chosen One seeks revenge against Master Pain, the villain who murdered his family. Using digitally inserted footage into a 1976 Hong Kong kung fu film, the comedy follows his absurd training and quest to confront his enemy, encountering bizarre characters including a CGI cow along the way.
Kung Pow: Enter the Fist is a 2002 action and comedy film. Inside comedy it is classed as Action Comedy.
The calibrated figure is built from 268 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 287 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,846 2000s films, not against the whole corpus.
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 Pow: Enter the Fist 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 268.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
