Is The Untouchables actually good?

The Untouchables sits in the 71.1% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 71.1% of them.

How does The Untouchables compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, The Untouchables lands in the 68.0% 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 Untouchables's score based on?

522 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Untouchables's score.

1987

global pct

71.1

Film · 1987 · Films · 1980s

The Untouchables

Name: The Untouchables
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Released: 1987

Scored from 522 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

71.1%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

68.0%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

92.9%

AI-adjusted percentile

522 calibrated reviewers

Summary

In Prohibition-era Chicago, idealistic Treasury agent Eliot Ness assembles a small, incorruptible team to take down bootlegging kingpin Al Capone. Mentored by a streetwise Irish beat cop, Ness learns that bringing down Capone will require bending his own rigid sense of the rules.

The Untouchables (1987) is a film IMDb files under the crime, drama and thriller genres.

3,140 other films from the 1980s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 522 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 539 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.

Is The Untouchables (1987) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 522
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1980s

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