China Synopsis
“Option 1: Diplomacy. Option 2: Military. Meet Option 3.”
An elite group of American operatives, aided by a top-secret tactical command team, must transport an asset who holds life-threatening information to an extraction point 22 miles away through the hostile streets of an Asian city.
Audience Engagement
2,022 audience reviews — more than 96% of China films in our index.
Popularity sits at the 88th percentile among China films.
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Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with Mile 22. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
The 2017–2019 China Window
In the crowded 2017-2019 China release window, Mile 22 sits at #174 of 248. The leaderboard below contextualises its neighbours.
The 2010s China Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 2010s in China, 515 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Mile 22 premiered alongside 76 others.
Budget & Box Office Efficiency
At a 1h 35m runtime, production spent $368K per minute on screen and earned $698K per minute back.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 76 other China films in 2018.
The 609th China title from China we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1935).
Our China catalog contains 946 titles in total (747 films).
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on Mile 22, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- handheld camera · 3
- black ops · 2
- top secret · 1
- intelligence officer · 1
- elite forces · 1
- tactical command unit · 1
- triple agent · 1
- cia · 12
- political corruption · 7
- martial arts · 369
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #647 of 946 China films indexed here (32nd percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is -0.5 points below the China average of 6.7/10.
Among China Action productions specifically: #201 of 319 (top 63%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | China |
|---|---|
| All Production Countries | China, Colombia, United States of America |
| Original Language | En |
| Spoken Languages | Indonesian, English, Russian |
| Production Companies | STX Films, Closest to the Hole Productions, Film 44, The Hideaway Entertainment, Huayi Brothers Pictures |
| Runtime | 1h 35m |
| Release Date | August 16, 2018 |
| IMDb | tt4560436 |