Is Tears of the Sun actually good?

Tears of the Sun sits in the 43.0% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 43.0% of them.

How does Tears of the Sun compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2000s, Tears of the Sun lands in the 47.4% 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 Tears of the Sun's score based on?

284 calibrated reviewers stand behind Tears of the Sun's score.

2003

global pct

43.0

Film · 2003 · Films · 2000s

Tears of the Sun

Name: Tears of the Sun
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Released: 2003

Scored from 284 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).

43.0%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

47.4%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles

30.1%

AI-adjusted percentile

284 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A U.S. Navy SEAL team led by Lieutenant A.K. Waters is sent into the Nigerian jungle to extract an American doctor amid a violent coup. When she refuses to leave without the refugees in her care, Waters must choose between his orders and shepherding the group through hostile territory to the border.

Tears of the Sun is a 2003 action, drama and thriller film.

A second review pool sits behind it as well: 3,523 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,846 2000s films, not against the whole corpus. 284 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 298 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.

Is Tears of the Sun (2003) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 284
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2000s

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