I can understand people not liking, or being able to sit thru, this film. And I say that while agreeing with the consensus that it is one of the greatest films ever produced.
The movie stuns me.... the use of B&W, the camera angles, and some of the best acting I've ever seen... even though I this Orson himself the weakest link. (still think he was good, however).
The plot, I believe, is not all that enthralling. It's not the reason I love the movie, anyway.
But I've always said about Citizen Kane that you could freeze frame the movie any place, at random, and what you'd see is perfection... a scene worthy of being framed and hung on a wall.
