Decent movie for a while. had some cool concepts and ideas. well shot with lots of nice-looking scenes. kept me invested in the story for the most part. but i feel like they messed up a lot of things, or could have done certain things much better than they did. lots of open questions and things that don't make sense to me. it's possible that it had something to do with the language barrier, or that i missed something, but i doubt it. i think there are plot holes and things that just don't sit right. (1 viewing)

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why was the girl covering up for her mother's killer. why would the killer think the hospital worker would kill the wife. his plan seemed really convoluted and unrealistic.

I sat down to watch the 2017 movie "Battle of Memories" (aka "Ji yi da shi") here in 2021. Sure, I hadn't heard about the movie prior to watching it, but that was hardly an issue, as it being a Chinese movie that I hadn't already seen was sufficient to make me spend the time to watch it.

Well, watch it might be stretching it a bit, as I gave up on the movie just shortly after having suffered through 1 hour of the ordeal that runs for almost 2 hours. Yeah, the movie's storyline was just downright boring and had very little appeal to me. And it didn't help much to sell the movie to me that the characters were pointless and unappealing.

This 2017 mystery from writers Leste Chen and Peng Ren was simply a swing and a miss. The movie was weighed down by a slow-paced and rather mundane and pointless storyline.

And there were no ups or downs along the way as the movie trotted along monotonously with director Leste Chen in charge. Felt like everything was running on auto-pilot, and with no surprises or plot twists, the storyline was just too shallow.

As the movie started, I must admit that I was thrilled to see Bo Huang in the movie, because is a rather talented actor. But "Battle of Memories" was a movie that even he could do so little to lift up. In fact, his performance in this movie was not really noteworthy.

I have no intentions of returning to watch the last remaining hour of the movie, as I simply had no interest in the bland storyline or its characters. And my rating of "Battle of Memories" lands on a mere three out of ten stars.

Too many loopholes and stupid twists. Found myself yawning after the first half.