Is War of the Worlds actually good?

War of the Worlds sits in the 34.5% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 34.5% of them.

How does War of the Worlds compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2000s, War of the Worlds lands in the 38.1% 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 War of the Worlds's score based on?

1,980 calibrated reviewers stand behind War of the Worlds's score.

2005

global pct

34.5

Film · 2005 · Films · 2000s

War of the Worlds

Name: War of the Worlds
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Released: 2005

Scored from 1,980 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).

34.5%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

38.1%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles

14.0%

AI-adjusted percentile

1,980 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A divorced New Jersey dockworker is thrust into a desperate fight for survival when towering alien tripods erupt from beneath the earth and begin annihilating humanity. Trying to reunite his young daughter with her mother in Boston, he flees across a collapsing American landscape as the machines harvest people and lay waste to cities. Steven Spielberg's adaptation of H.G. Wells reframes the invasion as a ground-level family ordeal.

War of the Worlds (2005) is a film IMDb files under the action, adventure and science-fiction genres.

The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them. 1,980 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 2,083 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.

Is War of the Worlds (2005) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 1,980
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2000s

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