Film · 2006 · Films · 2000s
Snakes on a Plane
Scored from 696 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
A witness to a crime is placed in protective custody on a commercial flight. An assassin releases venomous snakes into the airplane cabin as an attempt to kill him. A federal air marshal must contain the deadly snakes and protect the passengers during the chaotic flight.
Snakes on a Plane is a 2006 action, thriller and adventure film starring Samuel L. Jackson, Julianna Margulies and Kenan Thompson. Joe Chappelle directed it. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Its certificate is PG-13. It runs 1h 45m.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 21,066 of whom clear the calibration test. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,846 2000s films, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 696 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 734 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.
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 Snakes on a Plane 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 696.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
