Is Lethal Weapon actually good?

Lethal Weapon sits in the 89.2% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 89.2% of them.

How does Lethal Weapon compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Lethal Weapon lands in the 88.9% 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 Lethal Weapon's score based on?

360 calibrated reviewers stand behind Lethal Weapon's score.

1987

global pct

89.2

Film · 1987 · Films · 1980s

Lethal Weapon

Name: Lethal Weapon
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Released: 1987

Scored from 360 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

89.2%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

88.9%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

99.0%

AI-adjusted percentile

360 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Roger Murtaugh, a cautious LAPD sergeant nearing retirement, is paired with Martin Riggs, a reckless, suicidal narcotics detective grieving his wife's death. Their investigation into a young woman's apparent suicide unravels a heroin-smuggling ring run by ex-Special Forces mercenaries, forcing the mismatched partners to rely on each other to survive.

Lethal Weapon is a 1987 action, crime and thriller film.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 360 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 370 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.

Is Lethal Weapon (1987) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 360
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1980s

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