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Citizen Kane
Cast
Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Ray Collins View AllCrew
Orson Welles (Screenplay), Orson Welles (Director), John Houseman (Writer), Herman J. Mankiewicz (Screenplay) View All
Release: Apr. 30th, 1941
Runtime: 1 hour, 59 minutes
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My Final Thoughts on Citizen Kane.
I just finished watching Citizen Kane for the second time since I felt that my expectations for Citizen Kane were too high and too different the first time and therefore I did not enjoy it. But after ...
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After the newsreel ends, the director seems to want to find a hook into Kane's life and focuses on the great man's final word Rosebud to try to find out what made him tick.

The film opens with an authentic looking newsreel centered on the death of one Charles Foster Kane, an enigmatic and newspaper publisher and politician, which has moved several members of the media to find out who the real Charles Kane was.

The first 10 minutes of this movie are continuous annoying half-hearted radio presenter speak of the fictional newspaper article announcing Kane's death, and as though the summary of his life wasn't exciting enough, there's another 180 minutes serving to essentially repeat whatever this movie though....