Greatest Movie Ever?

Sorry for the delay in new posts, a recent cinema retrospective of the Orson Welles canon would take me to a small art house cinema to see the 9oclock showing of the alleged masterpiece Citizen Kane.

I must admit i was disappointed, despite being a perfectly good film, the film simply doesn't match up to all the hype surrounding it, in fact i can think of 10 films released in the last decade which were far superior, the film is about a publishing magnet who has recently died, the film shows a journalist who attempts to find the meaning of Kane's last word, 'Rosebud'. Being a child of the 90's i cannot really comment on the significance of the film in cinema history, only to say that at the time it was released, Citizen Kane was seen to be highly experimental due to its innovative cinematography and use of a non linear storyline, a tool that is common to a modern audience in films such as 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' (see here) and the cinema of Christopher Nolan.

Besides the innovation of the film, the acting, even that of Welles himself, seems to me to be typical pre 1950's style film acting, overacted and false, a far cry from the twitching, mumbling method acting of Marlon Brando & Co. All this leads me to believe that this film, despite of course being significantly important, due to the way it influenced modern cinema, and despite being a perfectly good film, is just not that good, and will never be able to overcome all the hype and stand on its own two feet independently. In short i liked it, i didn't love it. Rating: B