Is The Last Starfighter actually good?

The Last Starfighter sits in the 66.8% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 66.8% of them.

How does The Last Starfighter compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, The Last Starfighter lands in the 64.0% 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 Last Starfighter's score based on?

163 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Last Starfighter's score.

1984

global pct

66.8

Film · 1984 · Films · 1980s

The Last Starfighter

Name: The Last Starfighter
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Released: 1984

Scored from 163 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

66.8%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

64.0%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

86.4%

AI-adjusted percentile

163 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Alex Rogan, a teenager stuck in a remote trailer park, achieves a record-breaking score on an arcade game called Starfighter. The game turns out to be a recruitment test from an alien defense force, and Alex is whisked off to space to help defend the Frontier against an invading armada, while an android double covers for him back on Earth.

Released in 1984, The Last Starfighter is an action, adventure and science-fiction film.

The calibrated figure is built from 163 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 164 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1980s films — 3,141 of them. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,493 of whom clear the calibration test.

Is The Last Starfighter (1984) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 163
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1980s

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