Please Skip Me

Rating: 1/10 (11 May 2011)

It's pretty hard to pull off any story no matter what the medium it is being told in. But Battleship Potemkin completely fails at this attempt. So I would suggest you go spend your time watching some other more interesting black and white movie that is more interesting and more historically accurate than this poor excuse of a movie.
The camera angles are not so bad. But If you have great aesthetics but no creative content to keep the audience lost in your story then all of it goes to waist. Obviously the makers of this movie were not worried about this. They just wanted to make a statement against something something they didn't approve of but they didn't do a very good job of it.
You could tell they put forth a good amount of effort into this movie with all the extras and the props. This all of course didn't pay off in the long run. They ended up just making an expensive movie that had no lasting effect. I think the only reason I saw it in my film history class is because it is a Russian movie and he wanted us to see an example of something that wasn't completely controlled by the government when it was produced. Which is good because i wouldn't want to watch over an hour of that brainwashing communist crap. The thing is that they were trying to hard to make this elaborate movie that they put no depth into it. I literally sat there at the end of the movie saying, "Oooooookaaaaaay? Why did I just watch that?"
The music was okay but nothing I would oggle over. I found this movie so bad that it was slightly humorous. But I don't think it was the director's purpose to be funny. This film was a fail so just pass it up and look for something more informative or entertaining which would be just about anything.