Film · 2005 · Films · 2000s
Saw II
Scored from 680 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
Detective Eric Matthews is pulled into the twisted game of Jigsaw after discovering his son is among captives trapped in a warehouse. As he races against time to save his son and navigate a series of deadly traps, he uncovers disturbing secrets about the killer's identity and motives.
Darren Lynn Bousman directed Saw II, a horror, thriller and crime film from 2005. It stars Donnie Wahlberg, Shawnee Smith and Tobin Bell. It runs 1h 31m and carries an R certificate. It was made in the United States.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them. 680 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 717 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 148,985 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.
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 Saw II 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 · 2000s (7,847 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 680.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
