Is Rambo III actually good?

Rambo III sits in the 28.7% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 28.7% of them.

How does Rambo III compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Rambo III lands in the 27.0% 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 Rambo III's score based on?

227 calibrated reviewers stand behind Rambo III's score.

1988

global pct

28.7

Film · 1988 · Films · 1980s

Rambo III

Name: Rambo III
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Released: 1988

Scored from 227 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

28.7%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

27.0%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

11.1%

AI-adjusted percentile

227 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Vietnam veteran John Rambo is living a quiet life at a monastery in Thailand when his former commander Colonel Trautman is captured by Soviet forces during a covert mission in Afghanistan. Refusing to abandon his mentor, Rambo travels into the war-torn country and allies with Mujahideen fighters to mount a one-man rescue against a brutal Soviet commander.

Rambo III (1988) is a film IMDb files under the action, adventure and thriller genres.

227 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 231 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 2,083 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 3,140 other films from the 1980s form the cohort it is ranked inside.