Is The Big Blue actually good?

The Big Blue sits in the 81.8% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 81.8% of them.

How does The Big Blue compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, The Big Blue lands in the 80.0% 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 The Big Blue's score based on?

100 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Big Blue's score.

1988

global pct

81.8

Film · 1988 · Films · 1980s

The Big Blue

Name: The Big Blue
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sport
Released: 1988

Scored from 100 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

81.8%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

80.0%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

94.4%

AI-adjusted percentile

100 calibrated reviewers

Summary

The Big Blue is a 1988 adventure, drama and sport film.

100 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 106 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 1,303 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1980s films — 3,141 of them.