Is Red Dawn actually good?

Red Dawn sits in the 47.3% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 47.3% of them.

How does Red Dawn compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Red Dawn lands in the 45.0% 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 Red Dawn's score based on?

324 calibrated reviewers stand behind Red Dawn's score.

1984

global pct

47.3

Film · 1984 · Films · 1980s

Red Dawn

Name: Red Dawn
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Released: 1984

Scored from 324 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

47.3%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

45.0%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

41.0%

AI-adjusted percentile

324 calibrated reviewers

Summary

After Soviet and Cuban forces launch a surprise invasion of the United States, a group of high school students in a small Colorado town flee into the Rocky Mountains. Calling themselves the Wolverines after their school mascot, they wage a guerrilla resistance campaign against the occupying troops.

Red Dawn (1984) is a film IMDb files under the action, drama and thriller genres.

The calibrated figure is built from 324 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 332 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus.