A perfect mix of famous final twists

Rating: 10/10 (3 August 2001)

Surely a revolutionary movie, a classic, an above that a quite entertaining story about a real man's (Hearst's) fictitious life. The Rosebud` element rules the movie, for someone who doesn't know it, at some points it's the only reason to go on watching. The final solution is similar to the one in The Shawshank Redemption`, so to say the perfect mix between the Usual-Suspects`-twist and the Sixth Sense`-twist: it gives answers to questions one hasn't asked but also satisfies the viewer by telling him  in the very last moment  what kept him watching impatiently.
I don't have to mention that Orson Welles did a great job as director, showing stunning visual creativity (by 1940), but also his acting performance is remarkable because I think he was 25 years old and played Charles Foster Kane over a period of more than forty years and was still convincing, unlike other young actors later who won Oscars for elderly` roles.
Citizen Kane` is not the best film ever made for me, but it has some great moments and it was done by a talented young man in spite of many difficulties, so it became a legend.