Is The Punisher actually good?

The Punisher sits in the 30.2% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 30.2% of them.

How does The Punisher compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, The Punisher lands in the 28.3% 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 Punisher's score based on?

166 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Punisher's score.

1989

global pct

30.2

Film · 1989 · Films · 1980s

The Punisher

Name: The Punisher
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Released: 1989

Scored from 166 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

30.2%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

28.3%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

13.6%

AI-adjusted percentile

166 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Former cop Frank Castle, presumed dead after his family was murdered by the mob, lives in the sewers as a one-man vigilante known as the Punisher, racking up a body count against organized crime. When the Yakuza muscle into New York and kidnap the mobsters' children to force a takeover, Castle finds himself in the uneasy position of rescuing the kids of the same men he has sworn to destroy.

The Punisher (1989) is a film IMDb files under the action, crime and thriller genres.

166 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 169 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus.