Tremendously boring!!!

Rating: Null/10 (1 July 1999)

I'll give credit where credit is due--it's clear that this movie was MADE well (especially when considering it was made by a 25-year old man). But it's not an amazing movie, and hardly has any reason to be considered the greatest movie of all time. Plus it's also a very BORING movie. I saw this movie because of all of its hype, expecting it to be magnificent....but I was disappointed and unimpressed. Perhaps all the techniques that Welles used in the making of this film (cinematography, lighting, editing) may have been revolutionary in 1941. But that alone is not enough reason to consider this film "great". The plot is simple to understand, but it's not remarkable--nothing about this story would make it superior to other films. As a matter of fact, "Gone With The Wind" was made two years before "Citizen Kane", and technically, it was a groundbreaking film. Certainly, "Gone With The Wind" is a much better film than "Citizen Kane", by a landslide.