I had Great Expectations - But this movie was awful

Rating: Null/10 (25 May 2009)

My wife and I bought this movie a few years ago, kept saying "We gotta watch Citizen Kane one of these days" -- so this weekend, got out the drinks, sat down to watch this highly rated flick, hoping it would be as good as they say.
I have a friend who works for one of the Hearst grandchildren, so I thought "this will make a good conversation piece, to compare notes so to speak" -- well here's what happened.
We started on Saturday evening, after the first 20 minutes or so, we started checking the DVD player asking "how much more of this movie is there" -- and every time we checked the remaining time, we both groaned. I paused the movie a few times to stretch, to clear my head, to prepare for the torture again, sat down and pushed the play button.
We finally gave up at about 1/2 through. So the next morning, that would be Sunday, we thought we could finish the movie, which we did, checking the "time left" several times until the end of the movie and the explanation of the opening word.
After this extraordinary boring movie, we took out the 2nd DVD to see the real explanation, which was far more interesting than the movie, and about 1/2 the length. And the explanation of Rosebud was clarified in the 2nd DVD, or at least a believable explanation was provided.
I have only posted one other review on this service, about an equally boring but current movie. I have seen many great movies, and the reviews of the great movies are helpful, but how Citizen Kane is thought to be a great movie tells us all something about movie critics. They like to support the artsy and boring movies that everyone else hates, and pan the movies that the crowds love. I think they do this to demonstrate that they are independent thinkers, but what it proves is that most movie reviews can be ignored, good or bad, since they bear little resemblance to the actual joy one might get from watching the movie under review.
Watch this with no expectations of enjoyment, but watch it just so you can ask a "real" movie goer that loves it to explain "What did you like about the movie, I mean, really, what? And please, focus on the story line and the acting, was any of it good?" I didn't think so.