Formerly masterful novelist Thomas Harris continues to pimp out the serial-killing cannibal he (and Anthony Hopkins) made famous.
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02/09/07
Hannibal Rising (2007)
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Reviews Counted:136
Fresh:21
Rotten:115
Average Rating:4/10
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 CriticHannibal Rising can't even be considered a thriller, but an overplayed and unconvincing explanation of how Lecter became a murderer and developed a taste for human flesh.
02/09/07
Hannibal Rising has put Hannibal Lecter in a basic revenge plot that doesn't need a Hannibal Lecter. In the process, it explains away one of cinema's legendary enigmas.
02/09/07
If this picture were a little more ludicrous, just a shade more inane, it might be fun to watch. Unhappily, that is not the case.
02/09/07
These movies have no love for the characters, nor any respect for their audiences; they're just out to generate money.
02/09/07
There is nothing to be frightened of here.
02/09/07
The scariest thing about Hannibal Rising is that this seems to indicate that there will have to be another movie, in order to explain the explanation of Lecter's evil...
02/09/07
When life hands you lemons, make a wild mushroom-and-human cheek brochette with meat carved from the decapitated head of the war criminal who ate your sister.
02/09/07
Cannibal jokes aside, director Webber successfully conjures up and maintains a mood of creepiness and unease.
02/09/07
An exercise in cheap pop psychology and connect-the-dots back story.
02/09/07
Having seen both Anthony Hopkins and Brian Cox as Lecter, poor Ulliel is on a hiding to nothing.
02/09/07
A psychotic Sophie's Choice. Much more a gruesome tale of revenge than it is a suspense thriller along the lines of Harris' earlier Red Dragon or The Silence of the Lambs.
02/09/07
Fans of the series will consider this a must-see... For people not dying to know his origins, though, Hannibal Rising is, at best, a mildly diverting thriller...
02/09/07
While it's fascinating to watch the killer evolve, the fact that he's always onscreen detracts from his mystique. Hannibal derives much of his intrigue from his mystery.
02/09/07
More resembling a gory TV movie than a real film, this will give you nightmares for all the wrong reasons.
02/09/07
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02/09/07
A 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 CriticThis mechanical cash-in fails to explain how the young Hannibal Lecter became the monster we know.
02/09/07
How much more interesting - and scary - to have given Hannibal a perfectly happy boyhood with not the smallest occasion for anger or violence.
02/09/07
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