Is We Were Soldiers actually good?

We Were Soldiers sits in the 64.2% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 64.2% of them.

How does We Were Soldiers compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2000s, We Were Soldiers lands in the 69.3% 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 We Were Soldiers's score based on?

489 calibrated reviewers stand behind We Were Soldiers's score.

2002

global pct

64.2

Film · 2002 · Films · 2000s

We Were Soldiers

Name: We Were Soldiers
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Released: 2002

Scored from 489 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).

64.2%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

69.3%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles

86.6%

AI-adjusted percentile

489 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Based on the memoir by Lt. Gen. Hal Moore and journalist Joseph Galloway, this Vietnam War drama recounts the 1965 Battle of Ia Drang, the first major engagement between U.S. and North Vietnamese forces. Lt. Col. Moore leads roughly 400 men of the 7th Cavalry into a landing zone surrounded by a vastly larger enemy force, while back home their wives face the grim duty of receiving casualty notifications.

We Were Soldiers (2002) is a film IMDb files under the action, drama and history genres.

The calibrated figure is built from 489 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 513 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. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 5,690 of whom clear the calibration test.

Is We Were Soldiers (2002) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 489
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2000s

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