Is The Recruit actually good?

The Recruit sits in the 32.7% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 32.7% of them.

How does The Recruit compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2000s, The Recruit lands in the 36.3% 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 Recruit's score based on?

191 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Recruit's score.

2003

global pct

32.7

Film · 2003 · Films · 2000s

The Recruit

Name: The Recruit
Genre: Action, Thriller
Released: 2003

Scored from 191 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).

32.7%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

36.3%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles

15.7%

AI-adjusted percentile

191 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A brilliant MIT graduate is recruited by a veteran CIA officer and put through the agency's grueling training program known as The Farm. When he is assigned a covert mission to root out a mole inside the agency, he must navigate a web of deception where nothing and no one is what they seem.

The Recruit (2003) is a film IMDb files under the action and thriller genres.

7,846 other films from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside. 191 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 195 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.