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Bloodsport

1988 · directed by Newt Arnold · 92 min · R
22,988 feet · Prominence
1,268th of 15,261 films scored
The Rewatchables‘Bloodsport’ With Bill Simmons, Shea Serrano, and Jason Concepcion

How this film scores

Draw60

$64m worldwide in 1988 — $177m in today's money.

As released$64mIn 2026 money$177mRank1,813 of 8,589In 198817 of 140

How Draw works

Inflation-adjusted worldwide box office, on one global curve, and nothing else. It does not know whether a film was good.

Praise39

Critics 39, awards 0. Half each, so Praise lands at 39.

Critics39 → 19Awards0 → 0

No award rows on file. The awards pass reads Wikidata, which is thin for older and non-English films, so an empty ledger is usually missing data rather than an absence of honours.

How Praise works

Half critics, half a tiered award record where Picture and Directing carry most of the weight. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since.

Legacy64

Judged directly: Van Damme defining film, martial-arts touchstone.

Verdict64 of 100IMDb6.8 from 102kWikipedia27k views a monthAge38 years

Scored beside it · 396 of 3,430 films judged

If it does not belong in this company, the number is wrong.

How Legacy works

Legacy is a judgment, not a formula. A film can be adored by critics and culturally quiet, or lightly reviewed and permanently lodged in the culture, and no arithmetic over IMDb numbers tells the difference. Every signal behind it keeps updating.

draw 60 praise 39 legacy 64averages 54, which places it at22,988 ft
How the three become one number

Added, not multiplied, so a film transcendent on one pillar and weak on another is not zeroed out. A compression curve then squeezes the top, because the seven greatest films ever made should not be four thousand feet apart.

In these careers — elevation for this film

No scored career runs through this film yet. The people-side engine currently covers 108careers, and this film’s cast sits outside them. Top billing: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Donald Gibb, Leah Ayres, Norman Burton.