Bronenosets Potyomkin, 1925. A battleship crew is driven to mutiny and joins the Russian revolution. Directed by Sergei M. Eisenstein. Written by Nina Agadzhanova, with Nikolai Aseyev & Sergei Tretyakov.
Concept: 3/4 (Good)
Story: 1/4 (Bad)
Characters: 0/4 (Terrible)
Dialog: 0/4 (Terrible)
Pacing: 2/4 (Indifferent)
Cinematography: 3/4 (Good)
Special effects/design: 3/4 (Good)
Acting: 2/4 (Indifferent)
Music: 3/4 (Good)
Subjective Rating: 3/10 (Bad, 1/4). I hate when movies want to make points instead of tell stories, so I'm never going to like a propaganda film. But even putting that aside, I still think this is extremely over-rated. There are no characters that survive the beginning of the movie. The story is insultingly simple-minded. And even the iconic massacre scene is so ridiculously over-the-top that it plays more as comedy than horror. "My baby! Won't somebody save my baby!"
Objective Rating (Average): 1.8/4 (Eh)
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