Still powerful after all these years...

Rating: 10/10 (1 January 2004)

Sheer brilliance from start to finish!
Most silent films appear dated beyond any hope of current audience standards. This film does not.
It is now documented that this fictional account of the overthrow of the Battleship Potemkin has images that were for years used in documentaries of the Russian revolution. One sitting tells why.
Of particular importance is the infamous Odessa Steps sequence, as perfect an example of film editing as the Shower Scene from Psycho, the Hitchcock classic. (See the copy in Brian De Palma's The Untouchables.)