Is Repo Man actually good?

Repo Man sits in the 67.5% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 67.5% of them.

How does Repo Man compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Repo Man lands in the 64.7% 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 Repo Man's score based on?

173 calibrated reviewers stand behind Repo Man's score.

1984

global pct

67.5

Film · 1984 · Films · 1980s

Repo Man

Name: Repo Man
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi
Released: 1984

Scored from 173 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

67.5%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

64.7%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

87.4%

AI-adjusted percentile

173 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A disaffected young punk in Los Angeles drifts into a job repossessing cars for a seedy agency. He soon finds himself chasing a mysterious Chevy Malibu with a glowing trunk and a massive bounty on it, drawing him into a strange collision of repo men, government agents, and conspiracy-obsessed outsiders.

Released in 1984, Repo Man is a comedy, crime and science-fiction film. Its comedy subtype is Satire.

A second review pool sits behind it as well: 1,339 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1980s films — 3,141 of them. 173 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 176 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.