Film · 1997 · Films · 1990s
The Fifth Element
Scored from 660 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
In a 23rd-century future, New York cab driver and ex-special forces officer Korben Dallas crosses paths with Leeloo, a mysterious humanoid being who is the key to a weapon capable of stopping an ancient cosmic evil from destroying Earth. Joined by a priest sworn to protect her, Korben must recover four elemental stones while evading the ruthless industrialist Zorg, who is working with the encroaching dark force.
The Fifth Element is a 1997 action, adventure and science-fiction film.
The calibrated figure is built from 660 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 700 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1990s films — 4,082 of them.
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 The Fifth Element 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 · 1990s (4,082 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 660.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
