BroadcastChic Excellent, a Must See

Peereddi I was totally surprised at how great this film.You could feel your paranoia rise as the film went on and as you gradually learned the details of the real situation.

Tyreece Hulme One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Christophe Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Carson Huelle The more you watch Hannibal, the more you question its existence. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) is now living in freedom after his escape in Silence of the Lambs. He lives in Italy and is a curator at a museum, sounds thrilling right? The same protagonist arises from its predecessor, Clarice Starling. Except for one change, Julianne Moore is playing her and not Jodie Foster. Her job throughout this film is really unclear and it doesn't help that Julianne Moore and Jodie Foster look nothing alike. Between the change of actress, messy plot and awful makeup on Gary Oldman's character, this movie seems to never find its stride. It was purely put out for the purpose of making money, not following any advice from its predecessor in the process. What made Silence of the Lambs great was the relationship Clarice had with Hannibal, helping her stop Buffalo Bill. We get none of that in this movie, all dull characters with no purpose. Part of the characters not having any significance is because of whoever cast this movie deserves a Razzie award. The film peaks in it's "dinner scene" but is ruined by Ray Liotta being in the movie, why is Ray Liotta in Hannibal? The world may never know. The only actor who puts on an above average performance is Anthony Hopkins, but nothing near his Oscar winning performance in the previous film. That is the only reason in watching this movie, curiosity. Curiosity in if Hannibal has any reminiscence of Silence of the Lambs.

Majikat It doesn't quite touch the same standard as silence of the lambs, but it is a good sequel all the same. With a lot of new characters to indulge in and the setting of Italy provides a great cultural backdrop to Lectors extravagant taste.

cinemajesty Movie Review: "Hannibal" (2001)Based on U.S. author Thomas Harris' own succession to the novel-exceeding cinematic centerpiece of "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991) starring Sir Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster directed by Jonathan Demme (1944-2017) with principal photography received in 1990 to Academy-Award winning major five Oscar categories from "Best Picture" over "Best Acting" and "Writing" to the "Best Direction", when here director Ridley Scott must push himself to psychological limits to visually-adapt an ultra-stark as horror-gothics-indulging ingredients of Harris' novel, publishing in June 1999, when relatives producing partners Dino De Laurentiis (1919-2010) and his daughter Martha De Laurentiis raise five-times the production budget of "The Silence of the Lambs" in order to bring "Hannibal" into motion picture shapes of real-auditorium-shocking moments by taking the author's written words literally to skull-bone opening-proportions with a climaxing scene between Hopkins as actually now more flourishing character of Dr. Hannibal Lecter running through a world of masks and second identities, when initial Clarice Starling actress Jodie Foster must have declined a reprising spectacle of sexual retraints with the ultimate gentleman monster in human shape that only Julianne Moore could find trust and motivation enough to go along with director Ridley Scott, in the busiest production period of his career in directing films of season 2000/2001 also producing-directing African-civil-war-movie "Black Hawk Down" (2001), releasing then in December 2001, granting the director his final "Best Director" nomination from the Academy, who then finds surprisingly a balanced tone for "Hannibal" to complete the impossible in adapting a mind-strangling imaginarium of psychological horror beat work with continuous striking facettes of the legendary nemesis character "Hannibal Lecter" on the run, defending himself with graceful violent acts, no-mercy-thrilling action-beats in stabbing strangers, slicing guts and an ultimately reach onto infected-sociopathic brains of U.S. governmental-advantage showing fall guy seek-out acting of FBI superior officer Paul Krendler, portrayed by actor Ray Liotta to utmost sexism-distasted-office-behavior that even a Indenpendence Day New England retreat can not stop Starling's downfall avenging Lecter, reaching into the darkest corner what any audience can bear.Supporting characters, including Giancarlo Giannini as Florence-strolling Inspector Rinaldo Piazzi, out for the Million-Dollar-Reward to expose Lecter's whereabouts, who driven by heart-breaking, written-into-the-actors'-face greed for presenting a better life with opera splendors for his lovely as caring wife portrayed by Italian actress Francesca Neri, when familiar editorially-unnecessary reprising role of Frankie Faison as Nurse Barney, breaking suspense levels at times to nevertheless impeccable make-up-effects put on actor Gary Oldman as ultra-rich, but disfigured Mason Verger, out for religion-retrieving old-fashion revenge on double-crossing former-psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter; a leading character, which keeps on tending to fascinate in 35mm film visuals by high-end coverage-seeking cinematographer John Mathieson and a diversive score by composer Hans Zimmer to a slashing-montage opening sequence by two times Academy-Award-winning editor Pietro Scalia in a 125-Minute_Final-Cut in order to witness a short-lived revival of classic Hollywood label coming back to life from the "Golden Era", in reminiscene of dominion-striking Los Angeles-based film industry's of hard-boiled script-pushing noirish pictures of the 1930s/1940s; Hollywood Studio Metro-Golwyn-Mayer, founded in 1924, here backed up by Universal Pictures in international sales of "Hannibal", making an exceptional motion picture experience for the matured spectre, an world-wide hit-movie. Copyright 2018 Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC

Eric Stevenson It's not just that "The Silence Of The Lambs" was a tough act to follow. It's just that this movie just wasn't that good. The main fault is that I felt it was too long. Now, I will admit that it does get more interesting near the end, but not enough to like. I actually really do like Mason Verger. I even feel as though he had the right amount of screen time. I totally believed Julianne Moore replacing Jodie Foster. For a lot of the film, the pacing is pretty poor and it seems too jumbled. I'm reminded of the scene where Mason Verger cuts off his face and dogs eat it. Why didn't Hannibal eat it? Yeah, a pretty unpleasant film, but still hard to take seriously. At least there's some effort. **1/2