Is Upgrade actually good?

Upgrade sits in the 90.9% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 90.9% of them.

How does Upgrade compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2010s, Upgrade lands in the 93.7% 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 Upgrade's score based on?

1,167 calibrated reviewers stand behind Upgrade's score.

2018

global pct

90.9

Film · 2018 · Films · 2010s

Upgrade

Name: Upgrade
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Released: 2018

Scored from 1,167 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).

90.9%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

93.7%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2010s · 13,059 titles

99.6%

AI-adjusted percentile

1,167 calibrated reviewers

Summary

After a brutal attack leaves him paralyzed and his wife dead, technophobic mechanic Grey Trace accepts an experimental implant called STEM that restores his mobility. As the AI chip begins speaking to him and offering to help track down the killers, Grey embarks on a violent quest for revenge that pushes the boundaries of his control.

Upgrade (2018) is a film IMDb files under the action, science-fiction and thriller genres.

1,167 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 1,199 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 13,058 2010s films, not against the whole corpus. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 930 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.