On 2010-03-15 Mr. Critical, Cleveland, OH wrote: One of the other reviewers claims that Amazon reviews of the movie tend to fall into two categories: reviews by those with a sophisticated and technical knowledge of movies, and reviews written by MTV generation types with little knowledge of film.
I don´t believe I fall into either category. I was an English major years ago and love old movies.
´Citizen Kane´ may be a work of great originality; but I find it a boring film, so boring that I am unable to get through it. The problem is the protagonist, Kane. He is a boring blow-hard, in my opinion. I contend you can´t make great and interesting movies with too an intense focus on people whose psyches tend towards the mechanical and repetitive. Drunks and crazy people are other examples of types who make poor protagonists.
By the way, just saw another older film in which Welles plays an equally repellent character; but in which the focus of the film is less on the character played by Welles - ´The Third Man.´ Such a great, moving film. Welles´ part is much briefer than in ´Citizen Kane;´ but is all the more chilling and repellent for its brevity.. And summed up by saying The Story of a Boring Blow-Hard. Currently Citizen Kane (Two-Disc Special Edition) has an overall rating of 8 over 10.
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