I always love most of Huang bo's movies. Understand Chinese very well and English as well, watched it in bilingual sub, but still found the storyline very confusing.

In the end that senior police officer sounded like "Okay, I was gonna put it to and end, and that's it". The whole crime story was not retold again, and the cover-up plan was not re-narrated by the real culprit. I carefully followed the story, tried my best to get into the story, but till that police appeared somehow to be the real culprit, I was TOTALLY puzzled. Why did he do that? What was the purpose? Was he the lovers of that woman or the best friend of that kid? Or perhaps both? Yep, he was the one who picked up the kid from the school everyday, but he didn't re-tell people in the end. And the purpose also not mentioned. Helping a friend to do a murder is of course must be backed with some solid trigger, otherwise someone won't do it.

So, to make it short, it's a nice story, nice graphics, acting, and some small parts inside the storyline, but the ending lack of a crucial touch which confused most people.

PS: I have watched more than 900 movies and still got confused in the end after watching this, so I believe I'm not alone.

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.