Film · 2009 · Films · 2000s
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
Scored from 192 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
A prequel set centuries before the original Underworld, chronicling the origin of the blood feud between vampires and lycans. Lucian, the first werewolf able to take human form, is born into slavery under the vampire elder Viktor and forges a forbidden romance with Viktor's daughter Sonja. When their love is discovered, Lucian rallies his enslaved kin to rise up against their vampire masters.
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans is a 2009 action, fantasy and thriller film.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 7,511 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 192 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 196 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 7,846 other films from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 Underworld: Rise of the Lycans 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 192.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
