I admire the craftmanship, but otherwise it is incredibly boring! I watched it with a pretty good accompanying music piece, but the last 15 minutes I was basically just checking Facebook while the movie went on and on and on and on....

We all think we've seen Potemkin. We've all seen Untouchables, or at least Naked Gun 33 1/3, and we probably fell asleep at the Odessa Steps sequence in at least one college course. But with a fresh perspective, this was an eye-opener. There is a peculiar lyricism about the film as an entirety: when the Steps sequence actually starts, "AND SUDDENLY" is like something straight out of a horror film or a bad nightmare. The sequence itself has become cliche and overrated. The rest is underrated.

horribly ineffective propaganda. am i really supposed to sympathize with mutineers?

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Iconic and striking, but also tremendously disturbing. Yet still a masterpiece for its time.

The scene of the Odessa Steps is the cinema.

I cannot relate to people who found the ship scenes boring. Maybe I'm the only person who thought the ship scenes were the best in the movie (Yes, even better than the Odessa Steps scene which I found disappointing). Setting aside how influential it is and how good the cinematography was, I found the Odessa Steps scene out of place and the characters unrelatable. Engaging movie that didn't age as badly as I thought it would though.

I respect the hell out of it, and some of it's pretty cool. I really wasn't bowled over by it, though. That's about the most comprehensive review I can give of something this famous, by the way...!

Outstanding performance in editing and one the most important movies in the history of cinema but overall it isn't a really great watch for our day. A must see for future editors to see the Kushelov effect and Kushelov school theories.

The Odessa stairs sequence is the most dramatic I've ever seen in a picture.