Citizen Krap

Rating: 6/10 (11 June 2011)

This is the greatest film of all time. Well god help films. If all films were like this, I can tell you now that I would have no interest in them what so ever. "Citizen Kane" is out of print, well at least it should've been.
I'm not going to lie, I did enjoy the first 30 minutes, the first 10 which explained Kane's life in a nutshell held up very well even for today's standards. It seemed fast, it seemed interesting and i seriously thought that this could be a really great film! Then we were introduced to Kane the child, a bit of back-story (well actually a lot of back-story) and then we got to Kane being a newspaper mogul, starting out and it was about here that I thought, this must only have half an hour left. It actually had an hour and a half left, I had been watching it for 30 minutes. I stuck with it and I don't think I've ever had a night that long in my life! It's only a 2 hour film but it felt like it was four, and I'm really not exaggerating here! It was so boring! I think I nearly dropped off in some moments, I don't really care about this man who had success and then lost it all because I've seen it all before but in a much more interesting way! I know this film is as old as the hills but we're in the 21st century now, and so I have to compare to the standard of films we get now! I watched "The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button" the same day as this, a film that's almost 3 hours long and I had no problem with the length because it didn't feel that long at all. In the same way it tells of a man's life, but it's interesting! So the boredom factor is my biggest problem with this. The story was nothing I've not seen before as I said. But, I suppose the directing was impressive. Particularly in the opening 10 minutes and in some scenes I noticed some eccentric camera moves for the 1940's. but on the whole, the camera was as static as most film noir.
This is all I have to say on this. I think it's over-rated, over-long and over-here! Maybe it has some hidden meaning, but that's wasted on me. Just because a film has flashbacks doesn't make it the greatest film ever. What the hell is rosebud anyway!