Anyone else think 7,6 is a bit low of a rating?

I fully agree with you. It's a fantastic movie. I'd put it in my Top 20 of favorite films. The script is great, and the entire cast is at the top of their game. One of Reiner's best. I can't believe it's been 20 years since it came out. I remember watching it on video when I was a kid.

I'm quite surprised by this rating, it's definitely one of my favourite movies, among those selected few that I can watch over and over whenever it's on. It's a film that follows every rule in the book, but still avoids making a dull cliche out of itself. And that takes serious skill from everyone involved.

It is a disgrace that this film isn't on the Top 250 list.

I agree with you,. The relatively low rating took me aback especially given a much hyped movie like this. Honestly I have grown to be skeptical of Imdb's ratings. Some people don't just vote on the movie, they vote on other things. I'd bet a lot of those who low rated this movie did so just because they don't like Aaron Sorkin.

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I do. I rate it 9. The missing star was for Moore's acting and the under use of a few characters. Tome Cruise pulling a 'Jim Carrey' during his argument with More was certainly a plus.

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The problem with his type of movie is that only true movie reviewers would find it interesting and care to watch it and they normally have more strictly score values than other casual movie fans, who will rate their favourit movies with 10 stars in that site.

Most Sci-fi movie fans are kinda nerdy and there are actually a lot of them and they probably rate their favourit movies 10 stars.

I think movies like A Few Good Men or the English Patient or some other good acting movies will mostly attractive more careful and fair rating but I would not say those rating are coming from fans. Movies like X-men, TDK, Asian movies, the rating will probably not being accurate because the viewers rate those movies at extreme ends, it will be either 9~10 or 1~3 depends on their opinions.

The rating is an indicator, IMDB rating used to be reasonably accurate but now it is much less reliable.

I would not say the rating is too low though. I think the movie is not emotional enough and probably older people or people serving in the army will be more ralated to it. Plus nothing in the movie is particularly cool enough to attract many fans. Casual movie fans will probably watch it once or twice and stop.

I watched the Matrix about 20 times and I believe some people did the same as me. Is the Matrix better than A Few Good Men? I would not say so, the acting performance is just none-comparable. The modern movies are not only about acting though so comparing the Matrix and A Few Good Men will be depends on people's opinion. I believe most critics probably pick A Few Good Men over the Matrix but the Matrix generated much more fans.

The Matrix scores 8.7 in IMDB, FYI.

Looking at the breakdown of the ratings, I think this film is probably one of the more accurately rated films on IMDB. Very few 1* ratings which to me, indicates that it didn't get dumped on by a bunch of anti-Scientology Cruise haters back when he jumped on Oprah's couch.

The bulk of ratings are in the 7/8/9* range which is precisely where I think it should be. Unlike other people, I find 7.6 to be a good score for a film. It's above average with some room for improvements. If I were to tic a few stars off a 10* score, I would nail it with Demi Moore and some instances of poor writing or the unnatural delivery of some of the lines. I personally rate it about an 8* and I think that's a pretty fair assessment of this film.


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It's about right. The film does pander to the uneducated (as all modern films do) and has no place being compared to the truly excellent films of the past. Moore was insuffrable, Cruise was annoying as usual but tolerable in parts, and Nicholson (one of the most over-rated actors in history) was actually very good in this film.




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