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Spectral
2016
· Movie
· 109 min
C
MEANRANK
61/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3865
- IMDb #3948
- Google retired #1063
- Rotten Tomatoes #2775
- Metacritic #5085
- Letterboxd #4735
+6 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3847
- Metacritic Audience #3226
- Criticker #3392
- Kinopoisk #4912
- AlloCiné #2976
- Trakt #2916
Every rating
31–90
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 31, highest is Google on 90.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A DARPA scientist is sent to a war-torn European city where U.S. soldiers are being killed by ghost-like entities that are invisible to the naked eye. He must use his knowledge of advanced optics and science to develop a way to see and combat these lethal, spectral beings before they overrun the city and the world.
Details
- Director
- Nic Mathieu
- Writers
- George Nolfi, Ian Fried, Nic Mathieu
- Studio
- Mid Atlantic Films, Legendary Pictures
- Released
- 9 December 2016
- Country
- Hungary, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 109 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $70.0M
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