Overrated, hyped and mediocre with some technical fluff

Rating: 5/10 (13 November 2011)

Orson Welles himself noted that he personally thought "Rosebud" itself to be a cheap gimmick (his words not mine).
This movie as another reviewer up there has already noted, is grossly and unfairly placed up on high by so called movie "critics" or worst still, "experts".
How such a drab but passable piece of work could pass for "the greatest film ever made" is almost so questionable that if one does not question this, one is surely just a trainee film geek and not a seasoned person of the world, and most importantly of the movies.
The movies are for the people, and NONE of them suggest for a second that they even like this dull mediocre piece of black and white slush.
The scenes are appallingly shot and the actors are not screen giants or dramatically entertaining, but because this film is black and white and because it verges on costume drama and because Orson Welles spoke with a near British accent, American film societies (nearly of them now dead, like the arguments for this film) "chose" this, as if these high and mighty people can choose a boring dull slush job like this to be and I am serious: "THE GREATEST FILM EVER MADE" But nobody's favourite. Question that if you will, why the masses didn't ever choose it, but why film snobs choose it.