Is Sahara actually good?

Sahara sits in the 29.0% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 29.0% of them.

How does Sahara compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2000s, Sahara lands in the 32.0% 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 Sahara's score based on?

354 calibrated reviewers stand behind Sahara's score.

2005

global pct

29.0

Film · 2005 · Films · 2000s

Sahara

Name: Sahara
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Released: 2005

Scored from 354 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).

29.0%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

32.0%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles

10.3%

AI-adjusted percentile

354 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Adventurer Dirk Pitt searches the Sahara desert for a long-lost Civil War ironclad rumored to carry a fortune in gold. Along the way he teams up with a WHO doctor investigating a mysterious plague spreading out of Mali, and the two trails converge on a ruthless warlord hiding a deadly secret along the Niger River.

Sahara (2005) is a film IMDb files under the action, adventure and comedy genres. Its comedy subtype is Action Comedy.

A second review pool sits behind it as well: 18 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,846 2000s films, not against the whole corpus. 354 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 369 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.