Is Young Guns actually good?

Young Guns sits in the 64.9% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 64.9% of them.

How does Young Guns compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Young Guns lands in the 62.2% 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 Young Guns's score based on?

140 calibrated reviewers stand behind Young Guns's score.

1988

global pct

64.9

Film · 1988 · Films · 1980s

Young Guns

Name: Young Guns
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Released: 1988

Scored from 140 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

64.9%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

62.2%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

83.8%

AI-adjusted percentile

140 calibrated reviewers

Summary

In 1878 New Mexico, a group of young outlaws led by Billy the Kid are deputized as 'Regulators' to bring law to the territory after their English benefactor is murdered. As they hunt down those responsible, their pursuit of justice spirals into a violent vendetta that puts them at odds with the corrupt establishment and turns them into wanted fugitives.

Young Guns (1988) is a film IMDb files under the action, drama and western genres.

Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,657 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1980s films — 3,141 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 140 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 144 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.