Review of Citizen Kane (1941) by Seaning — 22 Mar 2021

I can’t believe this movie has anywhere near the score it does on all of these critic platforms. This movie was the biggest steaming pile of s*** I’ve ever watched in my entire life. Horrible acting and story flow make it nearly unwatchable.

I get that it was released in 1941. I get that. It was one of the first of its kind, ok, I understand. But that alone shouldn’t rescue it from all of its faults. I’m sure there are plenty of artistes who went to film school and have been told of this movie’s greatness and all the reasons why it is a masterpiece.

Then they regurgitate that line to the next generation, and this lie keeps perpetuating through the ages. But this film should be judged for what it is. It seems impossible to me that this rating should be anywhere near 100%.

People are either lying to themselves or trying to be part of the artiste bandwagon. I’m sure that in the film world, if you don’t like Cotizen Kane, then you’re some sort of country bumpkin, philistine ding dong who just can’t understand the underlying qualities that make this picture so divinely exquisite.

But anyone who comes back down to earth for 2 hours will see this movie for what it is: a bold accomplishment in early filmmaking that, when viewed in its historical context, can be appreciated for the boundaries it pushed and trails it blazed for films that came after, but that it is simultaneously a steaming pile of s*** of a film that borders on unwatchably bad.