Hannibal (DVD)

...I confess to having enjoyed Hannibal a lot more than Silence of the Lambs, which I think received excessive praise in the press. Yes, it could be due to the fewer expectations I had going into this one. Then again it also could be thanks to my twisted nature that I took much wicked pleasure in witnessing Dr. Hannibal Lecter preparing in such elegant fashion worthy of the world's best gourmet chefs, some very freshly obtained intracranial contents, ...
...Hopkins, reprising his role as Hannibal Lecter) is back. He’s been hibernating for much of this time, and now finds employment as an art historian in Florence. It’s been a while since his escape from the hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent Clarice Starling (Julianne Moore) is back, too, ten years after her life-changing encounter with the good doctor. The young, wide-eyed idealist is now a remote memory. ...

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Hannibal was released in cinemas in February 2001 and came out on DVD and video on 21st August 2001. We had pre-ordered our copy of the DVD version from Blackstar for £17.99, but the usual cost is around £20.00, depending on where you get it from. We went for the widescreen version (we have to make use of the widescreen TV sometimes) which is part of a two disc set. One DVD is devoted to the film and the other is a bonus disc with special features. ...
...2 Hours 11 Minutes Hannibal is Thomas Harris’ third novel and cannibalistic Doctor Hannibal Lecter. This time Anthony Hopkins (Hannibal Lecter) is joined by Julianne Moore as FBI Agent Clarice Starling, instead of Silence of the Lambs actress Jodi Foster. This film is set several years after this film and re-unites Lecter, Starling and one of his previous victims (Mason Verger) in a story that is both gory and thrilling. Mason Verger is a ...

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...a grim, inexplicable bloodlust. Hannibal Lecter … the most evil man alive, all the more reprehensible because of the chill lack of emotion and enjoyment which he brought to his vocation. He seemed to do these things because he had to, and they were logical extensions of his life, rather than because he wanted to. Somehow, the film ended with us hoping against hope that Lecter would continue with his blood lust, his insatiable pursuit of fear. It ...
...Hopkins agreed to appear, but Hannibal would be nothing without his genuinely chilling presence and cool rejection of all human weaknesses. There is little depth or true substance here, and Hopkins seems to have succumbed to playing to the lowest common denominator, giving the seething millions what they really want. The gore in Hannibal is genuinely more than the viewer can really tolerate, or at least this viewer, and was all the more unpleasant ...

dave27 25.08.2002 · Read full review
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...catch wind and go after him too. Hannibal is captured. Meanwhile, someone trains some pigs to eat people. Lecter and Starling meet through complex plot macguffins. All hell breaks loose. A spooky, sequel friendly ending happens. In summary, a good film bit dissapointing when compared to the first one. ...

Saturn 08.11.2001 (13.11.2001) · Read full review
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...it?) As fans of Hannibal the Cannibal will know this is the third in the trilogy, but only the second to star the man himself, (He’s Welsh you know! Born just down the road from where I live.. That’s enough get on with it) anyway, Hannibal kicks off with Dr Lecter now living in Florence (Italy) wanting to be the curator of a museum. As it turns out someone is trying to get him, and make Starling look bad in the process, and it’s ...
...a few people and Hannibal goes back to the ‘good ole U S of A’ where of course a certain Clarice M. Starling, takes up the chase. That IS the basic premise of the movie, and that’s all you’re getting on the plot front. Ridley Scott shows you all far better than I could tell it! Now on with other stuff, I was well disappointed when I found out that Jodie Foster wasn’t going to be playing agent Starling, and when the ...

wemstalker 25.09.2001 · Read full review
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...tells the story of Hannibal Lecter, the notorious killer who eats parts of his victim. **BRIEF PLOT** Set ten years after Dr Hannibal Lecter, (played by Anthony Hopkins) escaped from captivity in 'Silence of the Lambs' he is know living in Florence, Italy under an alias called Dr Fell. However, back in the U.S. FBI agent, Clarice Starling, (played this time by Julianne Moore) is having trouble with her superior Paul Krendler, (played by Ray Liotta), ...
...life changed when he met Hannibal years earlier. Unbeknown to Clarice, Mason Verger has secretly set up a reward for the whereabouts of Hannibal, so he can enact his revenge on the cannibal. Somewhere in Florence, Inspector Rinaldo Pazzi stumbles upon Dr Fells true identity and is hoping to claim the large reward from Mason. However, things go wrong as Hannibal react first to Rinaldo's plan. Leaving a bloody scene behind. With Hannibal then heading ...

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...matching it brilliance...just not quite. Hannibal is at large on the streets following on from his escape in the 2nd of the trilogy. Not exactly lying low though, this criminal mastermind carries on his depraved behaviour whilst evading the FBI and world police agencies with consumate ease. He s however also being stalked by a hideously disfigured multimillionaire madman, who had arun in with Lecter many years earlier - hence the disfigurement. Clarice ...
...in the role of Dr. Hannibal Lecter is awesome, there is no two ways about it. This man is one of the greatest actors that has ever lived and here in this role he is simply stunning. The calm placid, educated exterior given off by him which snaps within the blink of an eye to a wild eyed, seething madman, delighting in the pain and terror of others is truly frightening in the brilliance of its portrayal. This is matched by the creepy evilness of Gary ...

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...did. With Anthony Hopkins playing Hannibal Lecter with a realism that is very scary and Jody Foster playing the FBI agent Scarlet, this movie became a huge success and one of the scaries psychological horror movies since a namesakes Hopkins starred in Hitchcock’s Psycho. It was inevitable that after the success of the first movie the sequel would be made’ die to contractual obligations, Jodie Foster was unavailable for the second movie, ...
...‘Silence of the Lambs’ book, Hannibal was made. One of Hannibal Lecter’s previous victims, the rich one that somehow managed to survive the attack, seek revenge on Hannibal Lecter. His obsession for revenge, which is almost like a macabre crush in which he seeks to gain pleasure by making Hannibal suffer leads him to offer a reward for Hannibal’s capture. Meanwhile, FBI agent Starling comes under fire when she ...

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...numerous cast problems and setbacks, Hannibal is now chewing its way to our big screens. The third film following the tale of Dr Hannibal Lecter (the original being the low grossing Manhunter) it follows on from Silence of the Lambs, with Hannibal having escaped and now living a peaceful life in Florence sampling its finest cuisine. ~STARTERS~ The Plot After a botched drug raid the once heralded Clarice Starling (Julianne Moore) found herself double ...
...Gary Oldman) wants revenge on Hannibal because even though slicing his face off 'seemed like a good idea at the time' it just isn't what its cracked up to be when it gets down to it. He knows that if Hannibal sees Clarice in trouble he'll come back. And so he does, but not before have a little fun before hand with the resident Florence cop, its not long before we see Hannibal's nasty side come out once more. It doesn’t take long for Hannibal ...

3rdRockSatan 13.05.2001 · Read full review
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...of the Lambs! Hannibal is like I have already said, the follow up to Silence of the Lambs. I’ll give them credit, they could of called it Silence of the Lambs 2, but they didn’t! I think people have taken Silence of the Lambs to be the better film of the two, so I was a bit sceptical about watching this one before watching Silence of the Lambs, that’s why it’s taken me so long to getting round to watch it, but today I gave ...
...has a keen interest in Hannibal as he is willing to pay $250,000 dollars for the green mask Hannibal wore in Silence of the Lambs. It soon turns out that the bloke with the disfigured face is Mason Verger (Gary Oldman), one of Lecter’s old victims. He was led to feeding the skin of his face to a dog and now wants his revenge, but he keeps this all very quiet and just lets people know he has an interest in Hannibal Lecter being captured. The ...

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...her as bait to lure Hannibal out of hiding. Verger wants his revenge. Verger has also put a reward out for anyone who can bring him Dr Lecter and a police officer decides to try and capture Hannibal rather than turn him in to the FBI. He clearly just wants the money and isn't interested in justice. Agent Starling meanwhile is also having a little trouble with her male colleagues. Will Hannibal get caught by anyone and what will happen to Agent Starling? ...
...apparently on "moral grounds". Hannibal is set up as some kind of anti-hero and we start to quite like him. Even worse, his new victims - even a little boy towards the end who is given a piece of brain to eat - are seen to "deserve" it. Verger is a child molester who has apparently used child prostitutes - "11 year olds who would do anything for a bit of candy" - so we don't exactly feel sorry for him. The police officer is somewhat corrupt and ...

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...mouse chase begins with both Hannibal and Starling simultaneously play both parts.Their highly charged, obsessive relationship, built on a mutual obsession and repressed attraction is central to the game and the film itself. Starling's original interest to find him soon becomes obsession, but so too is another badly mutilated figure with a sense of revenge that has taken over his life, when a trace of Hannibal is found a race begins to find him first.. ...
...the intrinsic similarities exists betwixt Hannibal and Starling, e.g.(police/criminal, good/bad, patient/doctor, persued/persuer, weak/strong, hunter/hunted,rescuer/rescued etc) this illustrates the reversing roles that these two key characters hold and highlights their synonymous states. I found this film excellent, and even more absorbing than the first, a brilliant, original and highly entertaining film,full of suspense, shock and hidden suprises ...

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Hannibal is the second official instalment of Thomas Harris’s trilogy. The first part being ‘Silence of the Lambs’. This sequel sees the return of Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter, and his performance is as phenomenal as ever. The FBI agent Clarice Starling is not played by Jodie Foster, who won an Oscar for her performance in the original. Personally this is what put me off watching the film for so long as I was not sure whether ...
...original principal cast members. However Julianne Moore is fantastic as Clarice, and has really developed the character well. This is the type of sequel that works well as its own entity – it is not necessary to watch the first film before you see this one, as all of the background information needed is encapsulated within Hannibal. However I think that it is a much more enjoyable film if you have seen ‘Silence of the Lambs’, particularly ...

CandiceB666 22.12.2001 · Read full review
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...stimulates afterwards. On this basis, Hannibal must surely be one of the best movies that I have seen for many months - my friends and I seem to have discussed very little ever since we went to see it. Ten years on from its highly successful predecessor, Silence of the Lambs, the storyline of the sequel is relatively simple. Disgraced in duty, Clarice Starling is offered the chance to save her career by means of being assigned to locate Hannibal ...
...left to rescue who? Hannibal is a sumptuous piece of cinematic brilliance. Directed by Ridley Scott, the rich setting of Florence provides a perfect location for us to become re-acquainted with Dr Lecter, and the historic streets and buildings are used effectively as a backdrop to the sinister events that unfold. The film expertly builds tension throughout every sequence, and seldom offers the viewer's attention a chance to rest. The dialogue is ...

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...Silence of the Lambs (could Hannibal possibly live up to its predecessor?)Some people were loudly dismissing the film without having seen it. I was trying to remember every aspect of the book, which I'd read some months previously, to see how the dramatisation would compare. I had read some glowing reviews, some not so good, and some outright 'this film stinks' articles that had me prepared for the worst. Tickets in one hand, over-priced popcorn ...
...of slight disappointment. Hannibal was much better than I had dared allow myself to hope it would be. I couldn't see how Julianne Moore could fill the shoes of Jodie Foster, but she did admirably. I still think Clarice can only ever *really* be Foster, just as Hannibal can only be Hopkins in my mind, but I was glad to see she didn't try to imitate. Moore was just the right mix of gutsy bravado and fragile innocence. Ah, Anthony. I could watch him ...

davidb123uk 13.03.2001 · Read full review
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