Blazing, Powerful. An Ultimate Cinematic Triumph.

Rating: Null/10 (14 October 2002)

Courageous, powerful, smashing, sharp, passionate, dark, terrific, epic, visionary, tough, grand, brassy, emotional, and flawless. Orson Welles' Citizen Kane is a cinematic masterpiece of editing, montage, acting, story-line, music, cinematography, and directing. It is a milestone in motion picture history and Welles directed, co-wrote, and starred in it at the age of 25. Story's plot covers a man's ascent into the corrupt world of politics and the greed that lies in the newspaper industry. Then story shifts to the lost of his friends and love of his life. It is the unraveling story of a banal and self-absorbed man that has lost his beloved "Rosebud." That in itself is an intriguing mystery and pretext that will keep you guessing up until the final haunting scene in the movie. Those low shots and high shots and the astonishing black and white cinematography with striking blackness gives the film a touch of surrealism. The script is powerfully written and all the actors do a wonderful job. Hailed as the first modern sound film, Citizen Kane is the work of a visionary filmmaker that will be loved and treasured for years to come.