Film · 2005 · Films · 2000s
The World's Fastest Indian
Scored from 193 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
Burt Munro is an ageing bachelor in Invercargill, at the southern tip of New Zealand, who has spent decades in a corrugated-iron shed rebuilding a 1920 Indian Scout motorcycle, casting his own pistons and testing them on the beach. Ignoring the angina his doctor warns him about, he mortgages what he has, takes a boat to Los Angeles and drives a battered car across the country to the Bonneville Salt Flats to run at Speed Week. Officials there point out that his machine has no parachute and no fireproof suit, and that he has turned up without an entry or any of the required paperwork. Roger Donaldson's biographical drama stars Anthony Hopkins as Munro.
The World's Fastest Indian is a 2005 biography, drama and sport film. It runs 2h 7m and carries a PG-13 certificate. Its country of origin is listed as New Zealand.
The calibrated figure is built from 193 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 204 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them.
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 World's Fastest Indian 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 · 2000s (7,847 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 193.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
