Is Licence to Kill actually good?

Licence to Kill sits in the 66.7% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 66.7% of them.

How does Licence to Kill compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Licence to Kill lands in the 64.0% 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 Licence to Kill's score based on?

375 calibrated reviewers stand behind Licence to Kill's score.

1989

global pct

66.7

Film · 1989 · Films · 1980s

Licence to Kill

Name: Licence to Kill
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Released: 1989

Scored from 375 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

66.7%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

64.0%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

88.9%

AI-adjusted percentile

375 calibrated reviewers

Summary

After his CIA friend Felix Leiter is maimed and Leiter's wife murdered by a ruthless Latin American drug lord, James Bond goes rogue when MI6 refuses to sanction revenge. Stripped of his license to kill, Bond infiltrates the cartel's operation to dismantle it from within and settle the score personally.

Released in 1989, Licence to Kill is an action, adventure and thriller film.

The cohort it is ranked inside is 1980s films — 3,141 of them. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 2,216 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 375 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 383 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.

Is Licence to Kill (1989) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 375
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1980s

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