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Battleship Potemkin (1925)


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4 out of 10 You've Sunk My Battleship
Peter from Cork, 17 Jul 2007
Unusual, exciting and very different. I've no idea why this movie had me forgetting to breathe for long periods,but it did. The score is superb and layers on the tension, but the film itself is remarkable - brilliantly paced, tense and not one scene or minute too long or too short. Forget how influential it is, forget how many of the scenes have been pastiched over the years. If this film was released in 2007, people would acclaim it as original and sharp, without and ounce of filler.
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3 out of 10 Eisensteins Potemkin
Tim from Cork, 18 Feb 2008
Most definitely ahead of its time but offers very little in the way of entertainment to a modern audience. Useful for education and as an object of interest. Worth watching for the famous Odessa steps scenes alone when a crescendo of intensity if reached...
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1.5 out of 10 Not for me!
Martin from Dublin, 01 Feb 2008
I'd say this is more for an film buff into extremley old films! Just not for me - but don't let that put you off if your into the origins of film making!
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3.5 out of 10 Soviet propoganda at its best
Mark from Dublin, 26 Aug 2008
I thought this was a good movie told the story and although it wouldnt match the blockbusters of the day it is still a piece of modern history.
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2 out of 10 Silent Movie
Joanne from Meath, 15 May 2009
Silent movie - you have been warned, good for what it is but really one for the film buffs & students!
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Planned by the Soviet Central Committee to coincide with the celebrations for the 20th anniversary of the unsuccessful 1905 Russian Revolution, this film was developed by the 27 year-old Sergei Eisenstein from less than one page of script from a planned eight-part epic that was intended to chronicle a large number of revolutionary actions. Starting with the Potemkin's crew's refusal to eat maggot-infested meat, the mutiny develops and their leader Vakulinchuk is shot by a...

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