Definitely NOT the best movie ever...

Rating: 5/10 (26 February 2011)

I'll keep this review brief. I'll simply explain why this movie that has been hailed as the best movie ever is not in my opinion: 1) I felt nothing for the main character. I didn't care whether he lived or died, if he was successful or failed. I simply could not identify or empathize with him.
2) In line with number one, the movie as a whole did nothing to me emotionally. After watching it I didn't feel sad, happy or really any emotion at all and I certainly didn't want the story to continue which is one of the most important aspects of a great movie...you simply don't want it to end.
Now I'd be to first to admit that my opinion might be somewhat biased due to the fact that I had seen the movie listed as the best movie of all time according to the AFI's 100 top movies of all time. I've noticed that when someone tells me that a movie is excellent before I see it, it usually never lives up to the hype but great movies actually do live up to the hype. Good example would be Titanic.
I'll end my review here. I just challenge someone, anyone to simply list out why the reasons why this is the best movie of all time and please don't tell me how it revolutionized cinematography, if that's the case, the first movie ever made should be the best movie of all time. Story has to count for something and the end of the day, the story of Citizen Kane was just down right boring.