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Battle of Memories

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Battle of Memories

Released Apr 28, 2017

2h 0m

Mystery & Thriller

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In 2025, a memory manipulation operation allows people to delete memories. When a man tries to retrieve memories of his failed marriage, he finds himself in a serial killer's mind.

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Grant Watson

Fiction Machine

The final half hour effectively insults everything that made the preceding 90 minutes so interesting.

Rated: 3/10

Aug 29, 2021

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Leigh Monson

Substream Magazine

This is a film that should have impressed with its ingenuity. Instead, it blew all its good ideas in the earliest planning stages.

Rated: 2/5

Sep 24, 2020

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Emilie Black

Cinema Crazed

In general, the film is decently interesting and entertaining even though it could have used with a tightening of a few scenes and sequences.

Rated: 3/5

Apr 17, 2020

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Adam Patterson

Film Pulse

Battle of Memories is a tightly wound police procedural with a dash of science fiction thrown in for good measure. I

Rated: 7.5/10

Apr 9, 2019

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Nathanael Hood

Audiences Everywhere

Battle of Memories sacrifices itself with every new reveal, confusing us and making us question everything we've seen until then-and for the entirely wrong reasons.

Rated: D

Dec 27, 2018

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Avi Offer

NYC Movie Guru

An intriguing, taut sci-fi crime thriller with a labyrinthian plot.

Rated: 8/10

May 23, 2017

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Audience Member

Great film everrrrrr

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/02/23

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Audience Member

whodunit sci-fi in Chinese. Serious movie with what-if scenarios throughout. About justice with love intertwined. Law enforcement heavily entangled.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/07/23

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Audience Member

Better than your average Chinese thriller...

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/23/23

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waleed a

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) SPOILERS 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.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains , no matter how improbable, must be the truth.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/07/23

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harry g

Intriguing premise of mind erasure at a private enterprise clinic as a customer has specific parts of his memory deleted while he is in the process of divorcing his wife. The husband is a successful writer of genre novels and his deleted memories get mixed with that of a serial killer as the writer is developing the memories of the serial killer and the serial killer developing the deleted memories of the writer. The writers wife now becomes the target of the serial killer as it becomes a race against time to save his wife in a somewhat convoluted manner of crosses and double-crosses in basically what is a standard generic formula driven murder who-done-it that presents nothing new at the end of this two hour movie. The direction and cinematography are competent but lacks the artistry and surreal sophistication that Christopher Nolan brought to INCEPTION and Michel Gondry brought to ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND. Those two films visually are works of art where BOM is standard assembly line fodder. The premise is still a good one and wouldn't be surprised one day to see the inevitable Hollywood remake.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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Synopsis

In 2025, a memory manipulation operation allows people to delete memories. When a man tries to retrieve memories of his failed marriage, he finds himself in a serial killer's mind.

Director: Leste Chen
Producer: Tina Shi
Distributor: China Lion Film Distribution
Production Co: Wanda Pictures, Shanghai Universaljoy Pictures, Golden Cicada Films
Genre: Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: Chinese
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 28, 2017, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 7, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $571.0K
Runtime: 2h 0m

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