Hannibal Rising (2007)
Average Rating: 3.9/10
Reviews Counted: 143
Fresh: 21 | Rotten: 122
Hannibal Rising reduces the horror icon to a collection of dime-store psychological traits.
Average Rating: 3.5/10
Critic Reviews: 36
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 34
Hannibal Rising reduces the horror icon to a collection of dime-store psychological traits.
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Curious filmgoers looking to get better acquainted with the silver screen's most notorious cannibalistic serial killer are sure to get their fair share of shocks and thrills as director Peter Webber teams with author Thomas Harris to explore the early life of well-read psychopath Hannibal Lecter. Based on author Harris' gruesome novel of the same name, Hannibal Rising travels back in time to World War II-era Lithuania, where an impressionable, well-to-do young boy named Hannibal (Gaspard Ulliel)
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Li Gong
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Rhys Ifans
Grutas -
Kevin Mckidd
Kolnas -
Dominic West
Inspector Popil -
Richard Brake
Dortlich -
Stephen Walters
Milko -
Ivan Marevich
Grentz -
Goran Kostic
Pot Watcher -
Charles Maquignon
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Thomas Harris is now hoodwinked by his creation's faux pedigree. He's scripted him a ridiculously Eurotrashy upbringing, one so silly, it'll remind you of Dr. Evil's memory-tripping: "Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons..."
Top CriticHannibal Rising is basically a Steven Seagal vigilante movie with a hero who eats the people he kills. At least it's ecofriendly.
In the finest tradition of TV newsmagazines, Hannibal Lecter's penchant for serial murder turns out to be the result of a traumatic childhood.
What this nasty, brutish movie left me feeling was ashamed to be American. First of all: As a folk archetype, a supervillain for our times, this is the best we can come up with? A vaguely Eurotrash schoolboy who eats people's cheeks?
Tilting his elegantly aquiline features downward while hoisting one eyebrow over a dark orb, curling his lips with Grinchian deliberation, he seems to be determined to kill people on the strength of his cologne alone.
If they were going to show how he got to be the brilliant, charming, exquisitely cultured, uh, vicious cannibal psychopath -- couldn't they have come up with something more interesting?
Bloody prequel traces serial killer's origins.
Over twenty years after "Hannibal the Cannibal" made his film debut in Manhunter, the Dr. Lecter saga peters out with this misguided sequel.
Un intento forzado por seguir explotando el personaje de Hannibal Lecter, vistosamente filmado y producido pero sin otra excusa argumental que intentar explicar lo inexplicable.
o Webber mazi me ton aytokanibalisti Thomas Harris frontizoyn na makelepsoyn enan ap' toys pio eikonikoys haraktires tis mythologias toy tromoy toy aiona mas, kai na ton ypobibasoyn se enan akomi fonia mias opoiasdipote tyhaias slasher tainias, me proshim
There are some pretty sadistic torture scenes for the gore hounds -- but ultimately this pointless prequel is about as thrilling as a wet towel.
The material knows it is a prequel, and acknowledges such with tactics that consist of taking viewers from beginning to end in the most straightforward way possible...
Hannibal Rising isn't much more than appetizer.
A footnote rather than a film.
Zzzz .... zzzz .... zzzz ... Huh?! What's that?! There's a Hannibal Lecter movie going on?
Two plus two does not equal four in Hannibal Rising. No, this is a movie that wants to question the existence of addition before even getting down to the brass tacks of finding said sum.
Hannibal Rising resembles an elegant historical epic, if you overlook its implausible plot, abominable dialogue, and smug bloodletting.
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