Film · 1985 · Films · 1980s
Rambo: First Blood Part II
Scored from 284 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).
Summary
John Rambo is released from prison by his former commander Colonel Trautman for a covert mission to photograph a suspected POW camp in Vietnam. When he discovers American prisoners still being held, Rambo defies orders and wages a one-man war against his captors and the bureaucrats who betrayed him.
Released in 1985, Rambo: First Blood Part II is an action, adventure and thriller film.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 2,787 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 284 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 292 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. 3,140 other films from the 1980s form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 Rambo: First Blood Part II 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 · 1980s (3,141 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 284.
Cohort: Films · 1980s
