ThedevilChoose When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Bea Swanson This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

He_who_lurks First of all, I don't know a thing about the Potemkin incident and so the events shown here were not familiar with me. But, while this isn't among the best movies of the time, I did think it had a good sense of drama that made it somewhat exciting. Maybe the events aren't exactly easy to follow, but then again the part of the history that's here isn't the whole thing, just basically how the revolution started and then a brief show of the events after beginning of the revolution. Thus you can't really call this a faithful, detailed version of the incident but at least it's a brief introduction of it.Beginning the film we have a crew of sailors rebelling against their captain and committing mutiny. It's kinda cool because they show bodies being thrown overboard and everything. Then, we later see the following events after this through a couple of nice POV shots that are very well done. That's it. At 4 minutes long you can't expect a lot of detail but at least it has some nice drama and incorporation of POVs. Well worth seeing.

bob the moo A fascinating French film that came many years before the more famous version of the Odessa uprising and massacre. Made at the time of the events, the film does assume a lot of knowledge of what is happening (as the viewers then would have had) as it is a recreation rather than a story being told for the first time. In this way it is a bit much for the casual viewer because it doesn't really explain very much to you in a clear way but it is still interesting.Technically the film is interesting in use of other footage, "point of view" filming of scenes and the structure across several different sets. Modern viewers will not be impressed but watching it with the knowledge of what else was happening in the industry at the time makes you appreciate this for what it was doing and trying to do.

MartinHafer This film is all about an uprising that occurred aboard the Imperial Russian ship, Potemkin, and how the uprising spread ashore. This is a very early telling of the true story, but it was re-make so much better by Sergei Eisenstein a couple decades later (as a propaganda film for the new Soviet government). In this early version, the sets are pretty poor (though not really bad for 1905) and the story is VERY, VERY rough and confusing--unless you saw Eisenstein's movie first. In fact, the true story is very interesting and it's amazing to see just how UNINTERESTING and confusing this all became with this Pathé Brothers film. My advice is see the Eisenstein one and if you want to see a GOOD older film, try those of the French genius, Méliès.

Snow Leopard This is an interesting dramatization of the Odessa revolution, an event which is more familiar to movie fans through Eisenstein's "Battleship Potemkin". This much shorter film was made with the events still fresh in everyone's memory, and thus it does not explain much of the action, assuming that the audience knows most of what is going on. For that reason, if you watch it now, you probably need to be already familiar with the historical events in order to follow what is taking place. While quite brief and relatively straightforward, it does create a decent sense of action, especially given the cinematic limitations of the time.