How can anyone like this movie?

Rating: 1/10 (12 May 1999)

This movie is not even close to being the best movie of all time. The acting is mediocre, the visuals are outdated, and the plot is JUST PLAIN BORING!!! A rich recluse mutters "rosebud" right before he croaks and two very bland crusaders try to find out for some stupid reason why he died whispering something so ambiguous. Does this really sound like the plot to the greatest movie of all time? 1941 has come and gone, viewers. You can't keep arguing that Welles' moving of the camera makes this movie superb. If new cinematography techniques or technological breakthroughs constitute the world's greatest film, then Citizen Kane was dethroned long ago by Creature from the Black Lagoon and more recently by Terminator 2 and Jurassic Park. The other even more ridiculous defense of this movie's integrity is that Charles Foster Kane was the big-screen version of newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst. Couldn't the same reasoning be used to crown Primary Colors, which features a Bill Clinton-like character, the greatest movie of all time? Give it a rest. Stop declaring this "movie" a masterpiece simply because everybody else is hopping on the CK-lovers' bandwagon.