Give me a break.

Rating: 7/10 (19 January 2001)

**Spoiler** (But everyone who knows anything about movies knows the end anyway)
Since I'm all of 15, I can't begin to imagine what kind of impact Citizen Kane had on motion picture history at the time. Frankly, I can't see any clear reason why this is the 'finest motion picture ever made in America'. Nothing about this film holds up today. The 'ingenius' camera work is merely shining a bright light over someones head. What's the big deal? Someone explain it to me please! At no point in this movie was I moved to feel for Kane in any way shape or form. Wells script is merely an altered version of William Hearsts rise and fall. Even if it wasn't intended to be a movie of the week style exploitation, (you know the drill-'Citizen Kane: The William Randolph Hearst Story; Sunday at 9:00 on ABC) that certainly the way it looked to me. Nice plot twist at the end too. Rosebud was his long-lost SLED. Maybe if I didn't know the end before I watched it that would have seamed a clever way to symbolize his lost childhood. Or not.

I'm just rambling, but someone please tell me what the big deal is with this movie? It's competing with "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" as the most over-rated movie I've ever seen.
Go rent Casablanca, a true classic, instead of this sappy drama.