China Synopsis
铤而走险
The story revolves around a "surprise" kidnapping case. Liu Xiaojun (Dapeng), the owner of the car dealership, was involved in a kidnapping case for the accident of reselling a black car. He was surrounded by the kidnapped little girl Kiki (Ulanto Yaduo), the dereliant brother Xia Xi (Ou Hao) Several seemingly irrelevant people, such as Xia Tao (Sha Baoliang), dancers (Li Meng ), and second-hand car dealers (Cao Bingyu), have also fallen into the abyss of eternal annihilation.
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The 2018–2020 China Window
Vortex holds position #148 of 219 China films in the 2018–2020 window, below highlighted by audience rating.
The 2010s China Landscape
2019 was the decade’s peak output year for China — 86 titles released, including Vortex. Bars below show how the 2010s stacked up year by year (515 total).
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 85 other China films in 2019.
The 699th China title from China we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1935).
Our China catalog contains 946 titles in total (747 films).
Audience Engagement
10 audience reviews — more than 7% of China films in our index.
Popularity sits at the 18th percentile among China films.
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #538 of 946 China films indexed here (43rd percentile by TMDB audience score).
Among China Drama productions specifically: #339 of 547 (top 62%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | China |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Chinese |
| Production Companies | Hehe Pictures |
| Runtime | 1h 43m |
| Release Date | August 30, 2019 |
| IMDb | tt10074486 |