Is Outbreak actually good?

Outbreak sits in the 47.4% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 47.4% of them.

How does Outbreak compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, Outbreak lands in the 45.4% 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 Outbreak's score based on?

219 calibrated reviewers stand behind Outbreak's score.

1995

global pct

47.4

Film · 1995 · Films · 1990s

Outbreak

Name: Outbreak
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Released: 1995

Scored from 219 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

47.4%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

45.4%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

41.9%

AI-adjusted percentile

219 calibrated reviewers

Summary

When a deadly airborne virus from Africa surfaces in a small California town, a U.S. Army medical team led by Colonel Sam Daniels races to identify the host and develop an antiserum before the outbreak spreads nationwide. As military brass weighs sterilizing the town with a fuel-air bomb to contain the threat, Daniels must defy his superiors to uncover the truth behind the virus and save the infected population.

Outbreak (1995) is a film IMDb files under the action, drama and thriller genres.

219 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 221 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1990s films — 4,082 of them. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 1,841 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.