Is Thunderball actually good?

Thunderball sits in the 53.3% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 53.3% of them.

How does Thunderball compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1960s, Thunderball lands in the 43.2% 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 Thunderball's score based on?

387 calibrated reviewers stand behind Thunderball's score.

1965

global pct

53.3

Film · 1965 · Films · 1960s

Thunderball

Name: Thunderball
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Released: 1965

Scored from 387 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).

53.3%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

43.2%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1960s · 1,929 titles

62.6%

AI-adjusted percentile

387 calibrated reviewers

Summary

James Bond is dispatched to recover two atomic bombs hijacked by the criminal organization SPECTRE, which is holding the world to ransom. His investigation leads him to the Bahamas, where he confronts the eyepatch-wearing SPECTRE operative Emilio Largo and his mistress Domino, culminating in an underwater battle to stop the warheads from being detonated.

Released in 1965, Thunderball is an action, adventure and thriller film.

The calibrated figure is built from 387 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 391 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 1,928 1960s films, not against the whole corpus. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 2,083 of whom clear the calibration test.

Is Thunderball (1965) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1960s · 1,929 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 387
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1960s

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