Is The Last Samurai actually good?

The Last Samurai sits in the 85.4% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 85.4% of them.

How does The Last Samurai compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2000s, The Last Samurai lands in the 90.1% 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 Last Samurai's score based on?

666 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Last Samurai's score.

2003

global pct

85.4

Film · 2003 · Films · 2000s

The Last Samurai

Name: The Last Samurai
Genre: Action, Drama
Released: 2003

Scored from 666 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).

85.4%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

90.1%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles

98.5%

AI-adjusted percentile

666 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A disillusioned American Civil War veteran is hired to train Japan's first modern conscript army to suppress a samurai rebellion during the Meiji Restoration. After being captured in battle, he is taken to the samurai village, where he comes to understand and embrace their code of honor and finds himself torn between the empire that hired him and the warriors resisting Japan's rapid Westernization.

The Last Samurai (2003) is a film IMDb files under the action and drama genres.

7,846 other films from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 666 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 722 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.

Is The Last Samurai (2003) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 666
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2000s

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