Is Ransom actually good?

Ransom sits in the 63.4% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 63.4% of them.

How does Ransom compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, Ransom lands in the 62.4% 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 Ransom's score based on?

177 calibrated reviewers stand behind Ransom's score.

1996

global pct

63.4

Film · 1996 · Films · 1990s

Ransom

Name: Ransom
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Released: 1996

Scored from 177 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

63.4%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

62.4%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

82.9%

AI-adjusted percentile

177 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Wealthy airline executive Tom Mullen's young son is kidnapped, and after initially preparing to pay the ransom, Tom makes a stunning televised gamble: he turns the ransom money into a bounty on the kidnappers' heads. The decision sets off a tense cat-and-mouse battle as Tom and his wife race to recover their son alive.

Released in 1996, Ransom is an action, crime and drama film.

177 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 181 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. 4,081 other films from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside.