Citizen Kane is not an amazing movie by any means.
The acting is believable and good which is the best part of the movie, how good the actors play their roles but the story is not captivating and is something to be desired.
Orson Welles does a good and believable job playing as Mr. Kane, I also thought that Susan Alexander and Mr. Bernstein as they were the characters that stood out the most to me as being a realistic person was played realisticly as well. I thought though that they could have involved Kane's parents into the story more, but they didn't after watching the movie it's something I wish they would have done, just to make the story of the movie more intriguing.
I don't really think that Citizen Kane is a bad movie, just not as good as I expected it to be. Hearing that this movie is the greatest movie of all time, I had really high expectations, and it just did not live up to the hype to me. The character dialouge was great from all characters, but I felt the movie was trying to shock me with Kane cheating on his wife and how we watched his life slowly spiral out of control, but it failed to shock me or even entertain me.
The movie was more speaking then action not to say that that's bad, but to me the movie was 95% talking and 5% action, the dialouge was good but the action being Kane spazzing at the end.
What I'm trying to get at here is that the dialouge is good but the whole movie (not literally) being dialouge was interesting but it took a tole on me and got boring very quick, the movie picked up towards the end with just actual entertainment, mostly with just how Kane was behaving, from trying to be happy and failing, to sad to inraged, its very fun to watch!
At the end of the day I personally watch a film to be entertained and this movie failed to do that, for the most part. I found the dialouge intriguing, but hearing a lot of it get's boring real quick.
From an honest opinion though, I really don't watch films that often and don't know much about films and cinema, I have no thought of to how much work that they had really put into this film back in the day, I am just looking at it from an honset modern-day view. If it was the 1940's my opinion would be different, what I think is in an amazing film is not here, a film should have a healthy balance of diolouge and action and this film is very dialouge heavy. Too dialouge heavy for me unfortunetly.
It's a good movie, but not an amazing one.
6.5/10
- Lee Skitch
