Film · 1982 · Films · 1980s
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Scored from 364 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).
Summary
Admiral James T. Kirk, chafing at a desk job and his own fiftieth birthday, takes the Enterprise out on a routine cadet training cruise. Elsewhere the starship Reliant, hunting a lifeless world to test the Genesis Device - a terraforming weapon that creates life by first destroying whatever exists - stumbles onto Ceti Alpha V and Khan Noonien Singh, the genetically engineered warlord Kirk marooned there fifteen years earlier. Khan takes the ship and turns it toward Kirk and the Genesis project. Nicholas Meyer's sequel stages the confrontation as a naval duel, two commanders maneuvering blind through a nebula.
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) is a film IMDb files under the action, adventure and science-fiction genres. The runtime is 113 minutes. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Its certificate is PG.
The calibrated figure is built from 364 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 380 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 3,140 other films from the 1980s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 4,588 of whom clear the calibration test.
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 Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan 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 364.
Cohort: Films · 1980s
