Citizen Kane - Technically Delightful But Terribly Dull

Rating: 6/10 (31 August 1999)

I can watch any film from any year. I like films. That means that I like films because they are entertaining, not just because they are to be applauded for their technical merits. It's A Wonderful Life is my favourite film, because I enjoy it the most. In the same way, I like The Adventures Of Robin Hood, Casablanca, The Night Of The Hunter, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Dead Of Night, White Heat, The Italian Job, The Godfather, Taxi Driver, Star Wars, The Big Chill, Pulp Fiction, Babe, Starship Troopers and The Truman Show because they are entertaining. Citizen Kane, however, is dull. It may have enough technical genius to fill a hundred books on the subject, but as a film that can hold my attention, it fails miserably.