Hannibal (Two-Disc Special Edition)

Hannibal (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Ridley Scott

Hannibal (Two-Disc Special Edition)
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Actor: Anthony Hopkins, Frankie Faison, Gary Oldman, Julianne Moore, Ray Liotta
Director: Ridley Scott
Brand: TCFHE/MGM
Producer: Branko Lustig
Producer: Dino De Laurentiis
Producer: Lucio Trentini
Producer: Martha De Laurentiis
Writer: David Mamet
Writer: Steven Zaillian
Writer: Thomas Harris
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 131 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-08-21
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)

Movie Reviews of Hannibal (Two-Disc Special Edition)

Movie Review: Bad for Senior Citizens...............................
Summary: 1 Stars

Killing and eating people is certainly nothing that we want our grandparents to get involved with. Anthony Hopkins is old, so he's a role model for seniors. Frankly, we'd rather see an uplifting film about the aged such as the following:

1. Clipping coupons and sorting them by category.

2. Early bird supper - same food just cheaper.

3. Buick is a fine car, I enjoy mine.

4. Living Will Agony. They'll kill me to get a hold of my stamp collection.

5. Depends - protection that's really needed.

Now those are good film plots. We don't want grandpa to kill coeds any more than granny smoking dope, so we also don't recommend "It's Complicated" with that drug crazed Meryl Streep.

Summary of Hannibal (Two-Disc Special Edition)

Anthony Hopkins is "perverse perfection" (Rolling Stone) in his return to the role of Dr. Hannibal Lecter, the sophisticated killer who comes out of hiding to draw FBI agent Clarice Starling (Julianne Moore) into a high-stakes battle that will test her strength, cunning and loyalty.
Yes, he's back, and he's still hungry. Ten years after The Silence of the Lambs, Dr. Hannibal "the Cannibal" Lecter (Anthony Hopkins, reprising his Oscar-winning role) is living the good life in Italy, studying art and sipping espresso. FBI agent Clarice Starling (Julianne Moore, replacing Jodie Foster), on the other hand, hasn't had it so good--an outsider from the start, she's now a quiet, moody loner who doesn't play bureaucratic games and suffers for it. A botched drug raid results in her demotion--and a request from Lecter's only living victim, Mason Verger (Gary Oldman, uncredited), for a little Q and A. Little does Clarice realize that the hideously deformed Verger--who, upon suggestion from Dr. Lecter, peeled off his own face--is using her as bait to lure Dr. Lecter out of hiding, quite certain he'll capture the good doctor.

Taking the basic plot contraptions from Thomas Harris's baroque novel, Hannibal is so stylistically different from its predecessor that it forces you to take it on its own terms. Director Ridley Scott gives the film a sleek, almost European look that lets you know that, unlike the first film (which was about the quintessentially American Clarice), this movie is all Hannibal. Does it work? Yes--but only up to a point. Scott adeptly sets up an atmosphere of foreboding, but it's all buildup for anticlimax, as Verger's plot for abducting Hannibal (and feeding him to man-eating wild boars) doesn't really deliver the requisite visceral thrills, and the much-ballyhooed climatic dinner sequence between Clarice, Dr. Lecter, and a third unlucky guest wobbles between parody and horror. Hopkins and Moore are both first-rate, but the film contrives to keep them as far apart as possible, when what made Silence so amazing was their interaction. When they do connect it's quite thrilling, but it's unfortunately too little too late. --Mark Englehart

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