Film · 2025 · Films · 2020s
The Smashing Machine
Scored from 328 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
A biographical drama about Mark Kerr, a dominant mixed martial arts and pugilism champion in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The film follows his rise through the PRIDE Fighting Championships in Japan while struggling with painkiller addiction and a turbulent relationship with his partner Dawn Staples. Dwayne Johnson stars as Kerr, with Emily Blunt as Dawn, in a story about the physical and emotional toll of elite combat sports.
Released in 2025, The Smashing Machine is an action, biography and drama film.
328 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 339 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 459 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,929 2020s films, not against the whole corpus.
Is The Smashing Machine (2025) worth watching?
- Cohort
- Films · 2020s · 7,930 titles
- Calibrated reviewers
- 328
Cohort: Films · 2020s
