Weaknesses in its Plot Fail to Impress

Rating: 6/10 (23 November 2012)

i understand why this movie is considered as the forefather of the cinematographic techniques and movie-making used nowadays, and how phenomenal it must have been during its time ( and still is among many to be considered among the top movies of all time) However few things are certain in my point of view: cinematography breakthrough does not qualify a movie to be better than others, lavish props and good acting performances by unknown cast does not make one movie great either...the fundamental issue with citizen kane, despite all of that, is that this movie is still disturbingly normal as any other, however new or old -- with plot and character development so uninspiring, conventional and at times predictable (how many times a story of a rich tycoon's demise has been recycled?) -- and hence fail to impress. Best movie of all time? Far from it in my list. Citizen Kane only appears to me as having great outer beauty but lacking the brains to carve out inner impression. In fact there are other classic movies i can think of which are much more memorable than this one, and there are very recent movies with equally phenomenal cinematographic breakthroughs and yet superior in the sense of the inner beauty as compared to citizen kane.