This movie takes them all...!

Rating: 1/10 (19 May 2003)

*** Slight spoilers ahead, but already well-known ***
Get ready for another review rating this movie on the extreme. This movie is quite simply... unbelievable.
But not the way you might think; this review will be rating to the other extreme. Simply put, it's unfathomable that this movie cracks the Top 250. It's absolutely awful. The main reason it's awful is mainly because it's UNINTERESTING. It has nothing to do with "boring" or "slow moving" or anything like that. In fact, I thought the "movement" was fine. It's just plain uninteresting (and a little weird.)
There is nothing in the movie that grabs you and makes you genuinely interested in Charles Foster Kane. Nothing. There's nothing to cause you to dislike him or to feel especially endeared to him (or to any of the other characters.) The famous, one-word death breath of "Rosebud" turns out to be nothing more than gimmicky, and 30-45 minutes after watching him saying it, hoping that somehow the movie would really develop something around that phrase, you finally decide you just don't care why he said "Rosebud."
There exists not one redeeming factor about the movie that makes you care at all about the outcome which is one of the very reasons, I would suspect, that many movies are watched through in their entirety. And some of the scenes and scene transitions, aside from being uninteresting were actually a little weird.
Needless to say, my wife and I (who have watched plenty of other "boring" B&W movies and are quite tempered to doing so) couldn't bring ourselves to care enough to finish it. Again... Amazing that this movie cracks the Top 250 or receives the kind of reviews it does. It belongs in the BOTTOM 250 worst films ever made. It takes them all.