Worthy of respect, but people have since done similar things better

Rating: 6/10 (24 January 2010)

"Citizen Kane" is most certainly a landmark film over a variety of fields: cinematography, plot structure, acting, content and countless others that I can't recall as of now. It is certainly a visually spectacular film and its method of using a frame narrative to tell someone's life story is worthy of note/praise. Yet to be quite honest, I don't think that "Citizen Kane" otherwise really stands as a particularly intriguing film. Its pace is quite slow and too much of the film concerns itself on Kane's romances. I understand that it is worthy of respect, but I can't help but think that people are being a bit pretentious when labelling it as the GREATEST film of all time. As good as it may be, it certainly won't ever be in my Top 10.