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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
Director Peter Webber clearly wants Hannibal Rising to be a class production. Unfortunately, he makes the whole affair too artsy and staid for its own good, which results in a plodding pace that induces more eyelid drooping than tension.
This murky thriller is more of a pig's ear than a pearl earring. The actors, mostly British, speak with sinister furrin accents.
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..."
Lecter is fascinating because he's an enigma; his deadly allure more appealing because his past is a mystery.
The movie devolves into a routine rip-off of Death Wish.
It can't sell the idea that Gaspard Ulliel's Hannibal is ever going to mature into Hopkins' complex monster, and without that, it's just a slick exercise in futility.
In the past, Hannibal Lecter has both frightened and fascinated me. Now he's just a sad shadow of his former cinematic glory, stuck in an unspeakably awful movie.
To stay invested in the dulldrum vigilantism of Hannibal Rising requires siding with a psychopath.
The film's near fatal flaw rests with the recasting of Hannibal as an admirable Nazi hunter capable of compassion, a person who bears little relation to the psychopathic misanthrope who so easily sent shivers running up and down an audience's spine.
All told, I was surprised at how much I liked the film, despite its flaws.
Hannibal Rising is basically a Steven Seagal vigilante movie with a hero who eats the people he kills. At least it’s ecofriendly.
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.
For an absolutely unnecessary movie, Hannibal Rising is handsomely appointed, lushly if unimaginatively directed.
De Laurentis and his cronies have turned Hannibal Lechter into a young Louis Jourdan, more apt to grow up to terrify Adrienne Barbeau in Swamp Thing than Jodie Foster in the able hands of Jonathan Demme.
... serves only to dilute the delicious, mysterious evil that Sir Anthony Hopkins brought to the role... furthers only in adding to the studio's coffers.
Without Anthony Hopkins this franchise has completely run out of gas.
The guy's about as intimidating as a mildly irritated kitten, and that certainly doesn't up the creep factor.
Much better than the lousy book. Perfect casting of French actor Gaspard Ulliel as Hannibal.
The psychobabble sympathy card doesn't play well here.
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