Overrated tosh by an overrated filmmaker.

Rating: 3/10 (1 June 2005)

When I was growing up, I heard about various films that were considered "Classics". Citizen Kane was one of them. Eventually, I got round to watching it, and Orson Welles follow up, the Magnificent Ambersons on TV. Both of them I found tedious, and the products of an over inflated ego. Whereas his radio broadcast of The War Of The Worlds was an excellent piece of radio history, I do not believe that his "genius" was much in evidence behind the camera, rather, he should have stuck with the medium of sound, or to working for other directors, such as Carol Reed on The Third Man. As is the case with so many "classic" movies, Citizen Kane suffers from great expectations being thrust upon a mediocre picture, with the resultant effect that the film seems even worse than it actually is.