Though it was one of the greatest movies of all time I didn't find it so interesting

Rating: 6/10 (17 November 2003)

According to many this is the best motion picture made. Staring Orson Welles who also directed and wrote the story. This is pretty incredible considering that he had never even set foot on a stage before. I guess you could say that he is a genius at that. This interesting story takes on from the beginning. With its incredible lighting and shading techniques and the great way the beginning of the film fades from one photographic shot to another, as if each picture was blending into each other, this film was surely ahead of its time. `Citizen Kane' also introduced, to its audience, how much of an effect wealth can have over idealism. The narrative techniques add a great deal to the film, it laid out the films setting for you.
The camera starts at a fence with a sign that states no trespassing, then slowly fades into a barbed- wire fence, and lastly to an iron fence with iron flowers. Kane's estate, Xavier, stands upon its man made hill surrounded by its lush landscape and a zoo as big as Noah's Arc. The camera, disobeying the sign, creeps past the castles gates and into the yard showing incredible shots of the surroundings of the castle. Each photograph fades into one another bringing you closer to the castle.
Suddenly the camera reaches a window with the light on that gets turned off. The shot fades to a hand holding small snow globe, unexpectedly the man whispers `rosebud' the snow globe drops and pieces of glass and water fly everywhere. Later a woman covers the mans body as if he had died. This first scene sets the rest of movie. It shows what a powerful man Kane was. Across the world newspapers and radios were reporting this mans sudden death.
Although Welles work was great, along with most films, it had its side of controversy. `Citizen Kane' was a movie strangely parallel to William Randolph Hearst's life. Hearst was known for his great writing on the Spanish-American war. His type of journalism was known as yellow journalism. Hearst felt the film was a plagiarism of his own career and wanted RKO to burn every copy and negatives they have of `Citizen Kane.'
Orson Welles starred in, wrote, and directed `Citizen Kane.' Though he never made a movie or starred in one, he was commended for his outstanding work. He added much power and brilliance in this movie, which caused much controversy. Though the film in its time was great and still today rated as one of the greatest movies of all time. This reviewer gives it a six out of ten, just because it seemed like the greatest part of the movie was its cinematography. I didn't find the movie line very interesting, but if you're an old film loving kind of person, this might be the movie for you.