Is The Watch actually good?

The Watch sits in the 15.9% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 15.9% of them.

How does The Watch compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2010s, The Watch lands in the 19.9% 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 Watch's score based on?

222 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Watch's score.

2012

global pct

15.9

Film · 2012 · Films · 2010s

The Watch

Name: The Watch
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Released: 2012

Scored from 222 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).

15.9%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

19.9%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2010s · 13,059 titles

3.4%

AI-adjusted percentile

222 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A group of suburban dads form a neighborhood watch in their quiet Ohio town, mostly as an excuse to escape their domestic lives. What starts as a goofy social club turns serious when they stumble onto evidence that an alien invasion is already underway in their backyard.

The Watch is a 2012 comedy and science-fiction film. Inside comedy it is classed as Action Comedy.

The calibrated figure is built from 222 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 228 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 13,058 other films from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 2,676 of whom clear the calibration test.