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After a decade in abeyance, the courtly cannibal, Hannibal Lecter, returns to the screen, again played by Anthony Hopkins, under the direction of Ridley Scott. When F.B.I. Agent Clarice Starling (Julianne Moore) is blamed for a botched drug bust, her boss Paul Krendler (Ray Liotta) makes a media circus of her humiliation, which .. Read more
| Starring | Anthony Hopkins, Julianne Moore, Gary Oldman, Ray Liotta |
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| Director | Ridley Scott |
| Genres | Thriller |
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After a decade in abeyance, the courtly cannibal, Hannibal Lecter, returns to the screen, again played by Anthony Hopkins, under the direction of Ridley Scott. When F.B.I. Agent Clarice Starling (Julianne Moore) is blamed for a botched drug bust, her boss Paul Krendler (Ray Liotta) makes a media circus of her humiliation, which catches the attention of Lecter. Now a hardened veteran, she begins receiving letters from the twisted genius, who remains obsessed with her. Yet she's not the only one interested in drawing out the psychopath, now lecturing on the Renaissance in Florence. Italian detective Pazzi (Giancarlo Giannini) hopes to impress his young wife by nailing the reward for his capture, and wealthy pedophile Mason Verger (Gary Oldman) is eager to take revenge against the cannibal for leaving him with a hideously deformed face. But they're no match for Hannibal's coyly satanic ubiquity, which bewilders his quickly narcotized foes before he administers a punishment sufficiently grotesque to suit his sense of amusement.The odious Krendler, in particular, learns to use his gray matter for, perhaps, the first time in his life. However, all is prologue to his fated rendezvous with Clarice. A banquet for the splatterati, reveling as it does in gore and dismemberment, the film features brilliant work by a stellar cast, and the kind of meticulous art direction and lushly magnificent photography that one has come to expect of Scott.
| Starring | Anthony Hopkins, Julianne Moore, Gary Oldman, Ray Liotta, Frankie R. Faison, Giancarlo Giannini, Francesca Neri, Zeljko Ivanek, Francis Guinan, Mark Margolis |
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| Director | Ridley Scott |
| Studio | COLUMBIA TRI-STAR HOME VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 2 hrs 6 mins Blu-ray: 2 hrs 11 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Collections | 100 Top Thrillers |
| Genres | Thriller |
| Language | DVD: English Blu-ray: English |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | DVD: Dutch, English, French, German, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish |
| Released | Production year: 2001 To Rent: DVD: 07 Jul 2003 Blu-ray: 07 Sep 2009 |
A movie that edges towards the gruesome style of a big budget Hammer horror, presenting a bogeyman as superhero. No explanation is provided as to how Lecter manages to stay undetected as he moves effortlessly between countries; we have to take his genius
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More interesting when he was behind bars
The main fault of this film and its not really the films fault at all, is the book it was sourced from.
Hannibal was a book too in ... read more »
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Hopkins ... as good as ever
I've now seen all the Hannibal Lecter films and this one, in my view, is as good as they get. Perhaps, I would go even further by saying that I enjoyed this... read more »
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not the best
this is good but it is the least impresive of the three hannibal lector movies think it neede jodie foster
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Really Enjoyed It
A follow on from Silence of the Lambs, Not quite as good, but very much enjoyable still, this follows Dr Lecter after he has escaped, and Anthony Hopkins ... read more »
Sir Anthony Hopkins is teaming up with director Sir Ridley Scott to bring his most infamous villain Hannibal Lecter back to the big screen. The actor will reprise his cannibalistic serial killer for the fourth time in a second sequel to the 1991 hit film The Silence of the Lambs, for which he won a Best Actor Oscar. Hopkins also appeared in 2001's Hannibal before starring in the 2002 prequel Red Dragon. And actress Cate Blanchett has been tipped to take over the role of Clarice Starling after... Read more