Is Payback actually good?

Payback sits in the 62.4% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 62.4% of them.

How does Payback compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, Payback lands in the 61.3% 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 Payback's score based on?

295 calibrated reviewers stand behind Payback's score.

1999

global pct

62.4

Film · 1999 · Films · 1990s

Payback

Name: Payback
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Released: 1999

Scored from 295 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

62.4%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

61.3%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

83.2%

AI-adjusted percentile

295 calibrated reviewers

Summary

After being double-crossed and left for dead by his wife and partner following a heist, career criminal Porter returns to the city to recover his share of the stolen money. His single-minded pursuit of the modest sum brings him into violent conflict with a syndicate of crime bosses who underestimate just how far he will go.

Payback (1999) is a film IMDb files under the action, crime and drama genres.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 4,081 1990s films, not against the whole corpus. 295 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 300 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 3 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.