Is Taken actually good?

Taken sits in the 77.9% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 77.9% of them.

How does Taken compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2000s, Taken lands in the 83.4% 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 Taken's score based on?

954 calibrated reviewers stand behind Taken's score.

2008

global pct

77.9

Film · 2008 · Films · 2000s

Taken

Name: Taken
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Released: 2008

Scored from 954 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).

77.9%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

83.4%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles

96.6%

AI-adjusted percentile

954 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A retired CIA operative's estranged teenage daughter is abducted by human traffickers while on a trip to Paris. Drawing on his particular set of skills, he races across the city to track down the kidnappers and rescue her before she disappears for good.

Taken is a 2008 action, crime and thriller film.

7,846 other films from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside. 954 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 976 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.

Is Taken (2008) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 954
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2000s

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