Greatest Movie of All-Time...no Most Influential...yes

Rating: 10/10 (26 July 2003)

Citizen Kane is a ground breaking film that went to higher levels in cinematography, film directing, and special effects. This was the first movie at its time to be seen in a way that no other movie even came close to. Hollywood was never the same after the release of Citzen Kane in 1941.
What best describes this movie is: It's about one man's life and his dying words..."rosebud." How he gained the world, but in the process lost his soul. The plot is simple... One reporter tries to recollect Kane's life by meeting with Kane's closest friends to find out what "rosebud" means. Each person tells their story about who Kain was in a random, non-chronological order that makes Kane's life like a jig-saw puzzle. You just have to figure out what it all means and what his dying words "rosebud" has to do with it.
To be honest I did not enjoy the film. The story was very dull, nor did you really care for the characters, and the ending is not one you would expectedly unexpect. Possibly the only entertainment you're going to get out of this film is by analyzing the special effects, cinematography, and directing. For these are the only three aspects of the film that made it in my opinion not the greatest movie of all time, but the most influential movie of all-time.