Is The Spirit actually good?

The Spirit sits in the 8.9% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 8.9% of them.

How does The Spirit compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2000s, The Spirit lands in the 9.5% 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 Spirit's score based on?

263 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Spirit's score.

2008

global pct

8.9

Film · 2008 · Films · 2000s

The Spirit

Name: The Spirit
Genre: Action, Crime, Fantasy
Released: 2008

Scored from 263 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).

8.9%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

9.5%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles

1.0%

AI-adjusted percentile

263 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A rookie police officer is murdered and resurrected as The Spirit, a masked vigilante who protects Central City from criminals. He clashes with his arch-nemesis, the Octopus, a ruthless crime lord pursuing artifacts that promise immortality, while navigating encounters with a cast of dangerous and alluring women from his past.

The Spirit (2008) is a film IMDb files under the action, crime and fantasy genres.

263 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 268 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 6,484 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.