Is Red Dawn actually good?

Red Dawn sits in the 9.1% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 9.1% of them.

How does Red Dawn compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2010s, Red Dawn lands in the 11.6% 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?

322 calibrated reviewers stand behind Red Dawn's score.

2012

global pct

9.1

Film · 2012 · Films · 2010s

Red Dawn

Name: Red Dawn
Genre: Action, War
Released: 2012

Scored from 322 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).

9.1%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

11.6%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2010s · 13,059 titles

0.9%

AI-adjusted percentile

322 calibrated reviewers

Summary

When North Korean forces launch a surprise invasion of the Pacific Northwest, a group of young people in Spokane, Washington flee into the woods. Led by a Marine on leave, they organize themselves into a guerrilla resistance cell called the Wolverines and wage an insurgency against the occupying army.

Red Dawn (2012) is a film IMDb files under the action and war genres.

13,058 other films from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 2,325 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 322 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 332 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.