Film · 1995 · Films · 1990s
Mortal Kombat
Scored from 357 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
Three chosen warriors - Hollywood action star Johnny Cage, Shaolin monk Liu Kang, and special forces officer Sonya Blade - are summoned to compete in Mortal Kombat, an ancient martial arts tournament held on a mysterious island. Guided by the thunder god Raiden, they must defeat the sorcerer Shang Tsung and his fighters to prevent Outworld from conquering Earthrealm.
Released in 1995, Mortal Kombat is an action, adventure and fantasy film.
The calibrated figure is built from 357 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 365 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 4,081 1990s 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 Mortal Kombat 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 · 1990s (4,082 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 357.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
