Is The Dead Pool actually good?

The Dead Pool sits in the 28.7% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 28.7% of them.

How does The Dead Pool compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, The Dead Pool lands in the 27.0% 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 Dead Pool's score based on?

172 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Dead Pool's score.

1988

global pct

28.7

Film · 1988 · Films · 1980s

The Dead Pool

Name: The Dead Pool
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery
Released: 1988

Scored from 172 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

28.7%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

27.0%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

12.1%

AI-adjusted percentile

172 calibrated reviewers

Summary

San Francisco Inspector Harry Callahan discovers that his name appears on a celebrity 'dead pool' list - a morbid game in which players wager on which famous figures will die first. As the people above him on the list start turning up dead, Harry must hunt down the killer who is using the game as cover, while dealing with unwanted media attention from a tenacious TV reporter.

The Dead Pool (1988) is a film IMDb files under the action, crime and mystery genres.

172 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 174 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. 3,140 other films from the 1980s form the cohort it is ranked inside.

Is The Dead Pool (1988) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 172
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1980s

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