Film · 1987 · Films · 1980s
RoboCop
Scored from 548 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).
Summary
In a near-future Detroit sliding into bankruptcy and street war, the city has contracted its police force out to the conglomerate Omni Consumer Products, which wants the crumbling downtown razed for a corporate development. Officer Alex Murphy, newly transferred to the Metro West precinct, is ambushed and shot to pieces by Clarence Boddicker's crew, and OCP repurposes what remains of him as RoboCop, a cyborg enforcer bound by three prime directives. He clears the streets with mechanical efficiency until fragments of Murphy's memory begin surfacing and his partner Anne Lewis recognises the man inside the armour. Paul Verhoeven's 1987 film interleaves hard action with satirical news bulletins and commercials from the world it depicts.
Paul Verhoeven directed RoboCop, a science fiction, action and crime film from 1987. It stars Peter Weller, Nancy Allen and Daniel O'Herlihy. It runs 1h 42m and carries an R certificate. It was made in the United States.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus. 548 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 564 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where RoboCop lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 1980s (3,141 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 548.
Cohort: Films · 1980s
