Film · 2004 · Films · 2000s
Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War
Scored from 158 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
Seoul, 1950: Lee Jin-tae shines shoes to pay for his younger brother Jin-seok's schooling, saving toward a shop of his own and his marriage to Young-shin. When North Korean forces invade, both brothers are seized at a railway station and conscripted, and Jin-tae is told that a soldier awarded the country's highest medal can have a family member sent home. He begins volunteering for near-suicidal missions to earn it, growing harder and more celebrated with each one while Jin-seok watches his brother disappear into the war. Kang Je-gyu's Korean War epic is framed by a present-day excavation of soldiers' remains.
Released in 2004, Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War is an action, drama and war film. Its listed language is Korean. It was made in South Korea. It runs 2h 20m. It is rated R.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 1,310 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 158 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 165 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. 7,846 other films from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War 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 158.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
