Decent, but rather boring

Rating: 3/10 (17 February 2016)

I found Citizen Kane to be rather boring. The story sort of ends where it begins and plays a back seat to the overbearing message the film is forcing on the viewer. The emotions didn't feel genuine or powerful enough to support that message and move me in any significant way.
The time line felt sloppy. At some points, too slow. At others, too fast. The film climaxed after a "fast forward" of what seems like several decades. You have to appreciate the film's point of witnessing Kane's transformation from one person into another but the road to do so feels like it's full of potholes and shortcuts.
I feel critic's praise for it's "revolutionary" accomplishments for the era it was produced in is well deserved but unfairly considered for the "Best Movie of All Time" title. I didn't find anything about Citizen Kane to be remarkable other than it's ability to stand out against other films of the era.