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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

1982 · directed by Nicholas Meyer · 113 min
26,124 feet · Prominence
222nd of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredThe 222nd highest film on the mountain, and The Rewatchables has never done it.

How this film scores

Draw66

Lifetime worldwide gross $97m, re-releases included; about $330m in 2026 money.

Rank1,029 of 11,051In 19827 of 98

How Draw works

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

Praise78

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics78 baseAwards0 signal → +0 lift

No award rows on file, usually missing data rather than missing honours. Wikidata is thin for older and non-English films.

How Praise works

Critics set the score; a tiered award record, Picture and Directing carrying the most weight, claims half the headroom above it. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since.

Legacy78

Judged directly: Registry film; KHAAAN and Spock's death.

Verdict78 of 100IMDb7.7 from 134kWikipedia31k views a monthAge44 years

On the listsNational Film Registryevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 165 of 4,039 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 66 praise 78 legacy 78averages 74, placing it at26,124 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.

Whose apex this is

▲ Ricardo Montalban

In these careers — elevation for this film

Ricardo Montalban19,423 ftWilliam Shatner19,285 ftLeonard Nimoy19,080 ftDeForest Kelley18,072 ftJames Doohan17,843 ftGeorge Takei17,785 ftKirstie Alley17,661 ftPaul Winfield17,641 ft