As of 07 July 08 - this is number #28 of 250? This film should be #1 - but back in the 40's not in the 21st Century.

Rating: 2/10 (7 July 2008)

I really don't understand - and those who disagree with this comment are probably thinking it's beyond my comprehension - I have one thing to say before you click that 'not useful' button and that is that your mind is easily led, like to go with the flow and you would be an ideal candidate for brainwashing! You're as eccentric as Mr Kane himself!
In this films heyday when people lived by gaslight, and film direction was still evolving after the emergence of sound and the demise of silent movies - this film might have been an inspiration to 'budding' directors as it broke much ground back then in relation to editing/angles/utilisation of advanced filming techniques but that's just like saying we should immortalise the CRT's they were viewed on back then just because they too were ground breaking! This film will one day be recognised for what it is, utter rubbish - but it will take a few generation changes for this to fall in the ranks and I for one cannot wait. What a waste of time for me in this day and age where this film presented to me nothing I have not seen before.
Yes the director did get a hold of our attentions early on with this storyline revolving around Kane's last word "ROSEBUD", and so we stick with this boring and tedious film until the very end to try and discover what in god's name was so important about his last utterance only to be let down by a revelation that makes you think you've wasted the last 90 minutes plus of your life.
Citizen Kane gradually developed into a self-centred, spoilt, narrow-minded geriatric whose views of the world and the people around him did not actually match up with reality and thus as an inevitable result he ended up alienating himself left only with his material belongings which he'd collected over the years in his little castle (if you will) which secluded him from the world because he had lost the plot. Rosebud was a reference to a sleigh board from his youth which is probably where he was at his happiest.
1/10