Kind of a disappointment

Rating: 5/10 (27 September 2007)

One of the movies in my America in film class that we have recently watched was Citizen Kane. For homework I had to get background information for the movie. I read a lot of articles that told me that Citizen Kane was and is the greatest movie in American history. On the day that my class was to watch the movie I was interested to see if those comments were true. Nope. I'm not saying the movie was awful because it wasn't but I expected a lot more for the greatest movie ever. I think the whole thing with Rosebud was very clever and the camera shots in the movie were exceptional for the time. However the movie was not able to keep my interest. I'm not a big fan of black and white movies to begin with and Citizen kane did not really change my mind. As far as the acting in the movie I was very impressed with Orson Welles as Charles Foster Kane. Jedediah Leland and the reporter for the inquirer were good characters as well. Pretty much every other character in the movie did not hold interest. All and all not a bad movie just not the greatest movie in American film.