Too high of expectations

Rating: 7/10 (8 March 2010)

If one of my friends had called me said lets watch this cool famous movie I would have enjoyed it a lot more. Instead my friend called me and said lets watch the greatest film ever made. Thats what I was excepting and I felt It caused me to judge the movie to hard. The film is great, the fast-past plot that jumps from past from present almost every other scene. Normally that would be sort of confusing to the viewers but this director did it. How he did that may be the reason this movie is considered so great but there's more. The cinematography in this movie is done just as well as the film jumps from past to present. In fact the wonderful cinematography is one of the main reason it jumps from past to present so well. The cinematography really makes you feel like your looking in on this actual mans real life. The story its self also makes this a great film. Who wouldn't be interested in a story about an extremely wealthy man who ends up with nothing. The acting is also top notch in this film. From Orson Welles character to the butler who was with him at the end all deliver powerful performances. All these things I picked up on and enjoyed yet Citizen Kane(1941) still didn't live up to my expectations. I wish no one would have ever told me about this film before I saw it, but overall i defiantly enjoyed this movie and will be watching it again.