Film · 2000 · Films · 2000s
Mission to Mars
Scored from 598 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
A rescue mission is dispatched to Mars to investigate the failure of the first manned expedition. The crew must overcome the planet's harsh environment and uncover the mystery of what befell their predecessors.
Released in 2000, Mission to Mars is a science fiction, adventure and drama film. Brian De Palma directed it, with Gary Sinise, Tim Robbins and Don Cheadle in the cast. It runs 1h 54m and carries a PG-13 certificate. Its country of origin is listed as the United States.
The calibrated figure is built from 598 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 615 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,374 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them.
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 Mission to Mars 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 598.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
