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Do you maybe have an example? I'm always astounded how well the IMDB score matches how likeable a film is (minus personal preferences of course). 5 is basically always really bad unless I'm a fan of a specific actor/director/genre. The comments are mixed, the comments below the YouTube trailers tend to be quite on point though to see if a film is worth watching

You have to look also at number of reviews.

Then it's mostly Indian films which get ridiculous user ratings.

IMDB seems to be widely abused these days for marketing purposes. eg fake high ratings to try and mislead people into giving them a try

Examples in point (both exceptionally terrible, but with very fake high ratings):

* https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13668894 ("The Book of Boba Fett")

* https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9170108 ("Raised by Wolves")