Film · 1981 · Films · 1980s
The Road Warrior
Scored from 361 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).
Summary
George Miller's Australian sequel to Mad Max, released outside North America as Mad Max 2. In a wasteland left by war and the collapse of oil supplies, former police officer Max Rockatansky (Mel Gibson) drives a supercharged V8 Interceptor with only a dog for company, scavenging fuel to keep moving. Led by a scrounging gyrocopter pilot, he finds a fortified refinery held by a small settlement that is pumping and refining its own gasoline while a marauder army under the masked Lord Humungus and his lieutenant Wez lays siege outside the walls. Max offers to fetch them a tanker rig in exchange for fuel, which pulls him into their plan to break out and haul the gasoline away.
The Road Warrior (1981) is a film IMDb files under the action, adventure and science-fiction genres. Its certificate is R. It runs 1h 36m. Its country of origin is listed as Australia.
The calibrated figure is built from 361 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 371 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus.
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 Road Warrior 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 · 1980s (3,141 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 361.
Cohort: Films · 1980s
