Review of Battle of Memories (2017) by Harry%20 G — 25 Apr 2017
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.
This review of Battle of Memories (2017) was written by Harry%20 G on 25 Apr 2017.
Battle of Memories has generally received positive reviews.
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