Is Police Story actually good?

Police Story sits in the 90.2% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 90.2% of them.

How does Police Story compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Police Story lands in the 89.9% 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 Police Story's score based on?

139 calibrated reviewers stand behind Police Story's score.

1985

global pct

90.2

Film · 1985 · Films · 1980s

Police Story

Name: Police Story
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Released: 1985

Scored from 139 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

90.2%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

89.9%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

98.1%

AI-adjusted percentile

139 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Hong Kong police officer Chan Ka-Kui takes down a powerful crime lord in a chaotic shantytown raid, then is assigned to protect the kingpin's secretary, the key witness against him. When the criminal walks free and frames Chan for murder, the disgraced cop must clear his name and bring the syndicate down himself, culminating in a destructive showdown inside a shopping mall.

Police Story (1985) is a film IMDb files under the action, comedy and crime genres. Its comedy subtype is Action Comedy.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus. 139 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 140 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.