A silent movie that needs no words

Rating: 8/10 (24 November 2006)

Im not going to go into the plot or technical brilliance of the film, that has been done by lots of other posts, just to say this film works in my opinion not least because it is a great action film,there is largely no need for dialogue since the actions and acting is largely self explanatory, the use of subtitles is minimal and only used when required to move the narrative along, the soundtrack is also vital to the film and really does help the emotional roller-coaster of revolutionary fervour that swells among the crew of the potemkin and people of odessa, hard to find fault with the story or execution although the guy who says " kill the jews" must be the most stupid man in all of mother Russia ! for a film to be 80 years old and still provide real entertainment and a bit of a history lesson, is a real achievement, great stuff!:)