Hannibal Rising is basically a Steven Seagal vigilante movie with a hero who eats the people he kills. At least it’s ecofriendly.
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02/12/07
Hannibal Rising (2007)
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Reviews Counted:27
Fresh:2
Rotten:25
Average Rating:3.8/10
Consensus: Hannibal Rising reduces the horror icon to a collection of dime-store psychological traits.
Theatrical Release:Feb 9, 2007 Wide
Box Office: $27,503,677
Synopsis: Peter Webber (GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING) directs the latest installment about the monstrous cannibal Hannibal Lecter, revealing the facts of his childhood and the birth of his troubled mind. When... [More]
Starring: Gaspard Ulliel, Rhys Ifans, Gong Li, Richard Brake
Director: Peter Webber
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Reviews for Hannibal Rising
Top CriticIn the finest tradition of TV newsmagazines, Hannibal Lecter's penchant for serial murder turns out to be the result of a traumatic childhood.
02/12/07
Top CriticTilting 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.
02/09/07
Top CriticYou can argue that prequels to great films simply shouldn't be made. But when they are, this is the right way to do it.
02/09/07
Top CriticThe great thing about monsters is that they glide noiselessly from nightmare straight into myth, fully formed and eternally mysterious. To know what made them is to explain them. And once you explain anything, you begin to lose your fear of it.
02/09/07
Top CriticThere is no action-movie cliché too rusty to be wheeled forth.
02/09/07
Top CriticI can't name an actor who could have made young Lecter as interesting as the older one, but Ulliel does not come close.
02/09/07
Top CriticLacking the wit to qualify as a sick joke, the ongoing saga of Hannibal Lecter has become the Grand Guignol equivalent of a shaggy-dog story.
02/09/07
Top CriticHarris, who adapted the screenplay, and director Peter Webber are faithful to his book. Strong production values, a lush score and scenic locations work seal the deal.
02/09/07
Top CriticAs played by French actor Gaspard Ulliel, Hannibal is a playing-card joker: Ulliel performs every scene with the same dimpled smirk, which looks less like an expression than a plastic-surgery mistake.
02/09/07
Top CriticDirector Peter Webber delivers all this with a painfully straight face, and the result is actually less interesting than your average horror movie of the week.
02/09/07
Top CriticHe's just another cheap icon, set not to haunt our worst nightmares, but the cash-cow dreams of a studio looking for a franchise player.
02/09/07
Top CriticI hope the series has the good sense to stop with this less- than-convincing beginning.
02/09/07
Top CriticThere's a certain stylishness from director Peter Webber (Girl With a Pearl Earring), but not enough good acting to make it stick.
02/09/07
Top CriticFilmdom's greatest villain Hannibal Lecter has been both defanged and declawed.
02/09/07
Top CriticFormerly masterful novelist Thomas Harris continues to pimp out the serial-killing cannibal he (and Anthony Hopkins) made famous.
02/09/07
Top CriticA well-produced but slow-moving thriller that never quite roars to life.
02/09/07
Top CriticThe new prequel Hannibal Rising provides a back story that ought to have remained firmly in our imaginations.
02/09/07
Top CriticPrequel alternates between being awfully silly and awfully boring before settling on just plain awful.
02/08/07
Top CriticRationalize Lecter's brand of pure, irrational evil and you take all the fun out of it.
02/08/07
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