Really different...but really interesting,fun and gory.
Added 11/16/2009
Yesterday I rented this movie at the local Blockbuster today I saw it I was expecting something good,really good and that is what I got OK you have seen the silence of the lambs then the sequel Hannibal did not gave you the information you needed to know but I am not judgeing that movie but it gave you the discovery of Mason Verger(Gary Oldman in Hannibal)and Hannibal(Anthony Hopkins in the silence of the lambs,Hannibal and red dragon and Gaspard Urriel in the feature film)being free the whole movie plus a romance with Clarce Starling(Jodie Foster in the silence of the lambs and Julliane Moore in Hannibal)so in 2002 we got a prequel to the silence of the lambs will it reveal how Hannibal began?the answer is...no it just reveals how Will Graham(Edward Norton in red dragon)caugth him and then no killing for our killer Hannibal the cannibal but still quite good so in 2007 we go deep into Hannibal's past the origin of evil so we sometimes start to feel Hannibal not being so evilhe had a rough start at 8 years when the war stared he saw her poor sister being eated do you think he will stay sane the movie is really different and the carachter does not feel like Hannibal it is like because i saw Rob Zombie's Halloween I feel Micheal Myers not beig so bad because he got bullied since he was a child he is misunderstood and so like that movie this movie has lots of details and the gory scences are just violent and well done Hannibal looks so cool when he licks of blood from his hand when he kills some victim.I actually prefer this to the silence of the lambs the movie is entretaining it gives good details of Hannibal's inside sadness and you get to know much of his familiar.Gaspard Uriell is better than Anthony Hopkins.Hannibal also got a very dramatic performance by Aaran Thomas as a 8 year old child that has a lot of courage against thos Nazis that where evil he is not the badguy they are and when Hannibl puts his mask he looks radical and awesome and we learn he actually was going to be a doctor because they call him Doctor Hannibal Lecter but he is just another kind of doctor this movie gives good suspense and over the top kills the movie is a good horror movie that has also alot of drama,action,thrills,suspense,romance,foreing,war,terror and mystery it has a good plot and it is completely written by Thomas Harris the screenplay is done by him the movie starts in happines but then it turns very dramatic,the war themes are big,the kills are thrilling,Hannibal has romance,his aunt is chinese,the movie is horryfieng,there is alot of detective activity,the action is like Hannibal escaping from the orphanage and the silence is kept the main genre is drama but the second is slasher so if you are a drama fan this movie is for you,if you are chinese there is alot of chinese activity the romantic scene is when Hannibal and his aunt kissing and the end may not be romantic but Hannibal's aunt says him to forgive them that feels romantic the movie is a good movie that has a 100,000% of re-watchibility with 100% value of drama,horror,mistery,slasher and war 50% of romance and even though it is rated R a 10% of family and if you get a gory scale from 1 to 5 it is 5% gory movie.Get it now it is totally good and gives you the legacy of Hannibal Lecter.
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Farcical and campy. Very silly stuff for the sake of a guilty pleasure.
Added 10/17/2009
The movie is simply this: Hannibal had a bad childhood where his mom and dad died in WWII and his sister was cannibalized by Nazis. From there the movie devolves into a string of silly scenes which work more as parody of the typical revenge flick than as a thriller.
And what scenes there are. The one which stands out in my mind was where his childhood home is converted into a boarding school, where he stands up to one of the bullies and is chastised by the headmaster for picking on bullies! Go figure! And it just gets worse from there.
I've mentioned that this movie is a guilty pleasure. But not because it's a great thriller or its narrative is coherent. Rather, it is easily understood to the point that it's so dumbed down that you can tell that the actors can't even bring themselves to take it all seriously. It's hysterical when it should be serious. For a thriller that's a rather dubious quality to have.
What a long way this series fell from the greatness of "Manhunter" and "Silence". Now all we need is "Hannibal: The Musical" to make the series complete.
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Hannibal Rises To The Ocassion
Added 9/24/2009
Some people have complained about Thomas Harris writing the screenplay as well as the novel to "Hannibal Rising"; well after the way David Mamet and Steve Zaillion's screenplay butcheded the end of "Hannibal", I am sure that he did not want HIS character getting ruined again. I throughly enjoyed watching Hannibal do away with those who truly deserved it; especially those who killed his sister. I absolutely enjoyed the way he cut down the butcher who was rude to his aunt. It is ashame that the series seems to have come to an end with this book/movie. I will always look forward to any adventures with the good doctor.
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The Explanation of Our Sympathy and Understanding of Hannibal
Added 8/1/2009
Gaspard Ulliel is the young Anthony Hopkins in every move, look and determination to be savage. We see Hannibal and his sister Misha with their whole family in a rich, beautiful and loving family. As the movie begins director Peter Weber opens the movie to one of the most beautiful scenes in the woods by a lake with the Lecter Castle magically situated in the background. Hannibal and Misha are playing and we feel so close to these unknown children. They are giggling and laughing reminding me of days with one of my younger sisters who was too young to really communicate. Misha has such a wonderful innocence and trusting character that you wish she were your daughter.
Tragedy quickly strikes as fast as lightening and we are swept up into a war with our wonderful Lecter family's get away. We wish them to move faster. They finally reach their cabin and war breaks out as they have all been told where to stand while Hannibal and Misha may stay in the house. Russian planes attack the opposing soldiers getting water from the cabin's well. A plane crash hits an object while other planes fire on any one they choose.
Thus begins Hannibal's relentless protection of Misha as long as he can. Then the memories of life with Misha seems like a spike in Gaspard's heart as he searches for Misha's killers. Gaspard begins the construction of understanding Anthony Hopkins Oscar winning performance of the Hannibal we all know and hate/love.
Every scene explains why Hopkins did this or that or how he knows fine things. Gaspard is highly intelligent and has no free time but to build on the rage burning in Gaspard from his childhood.
This movie is thrilling to watch. My roommate and I know all the words. We have watched it at least 30 times and have enjoyed it more on each viewing. Tonight we listened to director Peter Weber and Ms De Laurentiis. They are just fantastic speakers concentrating on what we were seeing. I've listened to other directors who are lackluster or talk too much to their guests; we never learn the anatomy of each scene that we come upon.
Like the movie HostelHostel (Unrated Widescreen Edition). Even though there are 4 director commentaries he talks too much about Hollywood and film making and we barely ever learn more than what we see. Commentaries have to become more informative and people friendly.
Hannibal Rising is a masterpiece of collaborate effort and we have to thank it mostly to the wonderful writing of Thomas Harris. Now I'm tempted to read the book.
See Hannibal Rising and discover how Gaspard grows up to be the horrific Anthony Hopkin's as Hannibal. Believe me this ties all the know-hows and reasons for all the Hannibal movies.
Bravo to Gaspard Utilliel, Li Gong, and especially for Thomas Harris the writer and director Peter Weber. Hannibal is a unique and terrifying character. Hannibal Rising opens up the beginnings of Lecter and what is yet to come. Just fantastic!
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The most important questions are never answered
Added 6/21/2009
"Hannibal Rising" doesn't answer the most important questions. Such as: how does the liver of a war criminal taste with chianti? How many Hilfswillige can you consume at one single occasion? Why weren't there any starlings among the ortolans? And where were the French police when Vichy put little children on trains to Auschwitz?
And do Japanese women really have....?
Frankly, this movie really sucks. "The silence of the lambs" was a *very* good movie. "Hannibal" was not. Care for some delicious brain, inspector Starling? And now this...
Incidentally, I also wonder how a bourgeois defector from Soviet Lithuania could return to the USSR in the middle of the Cold War, using his real name? Perhaps Hannibal the Cannibal had connections with Beria?
One star.
Time for a snack...
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Really different...but really interesting,fun and gory.
Added 11/16/2009
Yesterday I rented this movie at the local Blockbuster today I saw it I was expecting something good,really good and that is what I got OK you have seen the silence of the lambs then the sequel Hannibal did not gave you the information you needed to know but I am not judgeing that movie but it gave you the discovery of Mason Verger(Gary Oldman in Hannibal)and Hannibal(Anthony Hopkins in the silence of the lambs,Hannibal and red dragon and Gaspard Urriel in the feature film)being free the whole movie plus a romance with Clarce Starling(Jodie Foster in the silence of the lambs and Julliane Moore in Hannibal)so in 2002 we got a prequel to the silence of the lambs will it reveal how Hannibal began?the answer is...no it just reveals how Will Graham(Edward Norton in red dragon)caugth him and then no killing for our killer Hannibal the cannibal but still quite good so in 2007 we go deep into Hannibal's past the origin of evil so we sometimes start to feel Hannibal not being so evilhe had a rough start at 8 years when the war stared he saw her poor sister being eated do you think he will stay sane the movie is really different and the carachter does not feel like Hannibal it is like because i saw Rob Zombie's Halloween I feel Micheal Myers not beig so bad because he got bullied since he was a child he is misunderstood and so like that movie this movie has lots of details and the gory scences are just violent and well done Hannibal looks so cool when he licks of blood from his hand when he kills some victim.I actually prefer this to the silence of the lambs the movie is entretaining it gives good details of Hannibal's inside sadness and you get to know much of his familiar.Gaspard Uriell is better than Anthony Hopkins.Hannibal also got a very dramatic performance by Aaran Thomas as a 8 year old child that has a lot of courage against thos Nazis that where evil he is not the badguy they are and when Hannibl puts his mask he looks radical and awesome and we learn he actually was going to be a doctor because they call him Doctor Hannibal Lecter but he is just another kind of doctor this movie gives good suspense and over the top kills the movie is a good horror movie that has also alot of drama,action,thrills,suspense,romance,foreing,war,terror and mystery it has a good plot and it is completely written by Thomas Harris the screenplay is done by him the movie starts in happines but then it turns very dramatic,the war themes are big,the kills are thrilling,Hannibal has romance,his aunt is chinese,the movie is horryfieng,there is alot of detective activity,the action is like Hannibal escaping from the orphanage and the silence is kept the main genre is drama but the second is slasher so if you are a drama fan this movie is for you,if you are chinese there is alot of chinese activity the romantic scene is when Hannibal and his aunt kissing and the end may not be romantic but Hannibal's aunt says him to forgive them that feels romantic the movie is a good movie that has a 100,000% of re-watchibility with 100% value of drama,horror,mistery,slasher and war 50% of romance and even though it is rated R a 10% of family and if you get a gory scale from 1 to 5 it is 5% gory movie.Get it now it is totally good and gives you the legacy of Hannibal Lecter.
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Farcical and campy. Very silly stuff for the sake of a guilty pleasure.
Added 10/17/2009
The movie is simply this: Hannibal had a bad childhood where his mom and dad died in WWII and his sister was cannibalized by Nazis. From there the movie devolves into a string of silly scenes which work more as parody of the typical revenge flick than as a thriller.
And what scenes there are. The one which stands out in my mind was where his childhood home is converted into a boarding school, where he stands up to one of the bullies and is chastised by the headmaster for picking on bullies! Go figure! And it just gets worse from there.
I've mentioned that this movie is a guilty pleasure. But not because it's a great thriller or its narrative is coherent. Rather, it is easily understood to the point that it's so dumbed down that you can tell that the actors can't even bring themselves to take it all seriously. It's hysterical when it should be serious. For a thriller that's a rather dubious quality to have.
What a long way this series fell from the greatness of "Manhunter" and "Silence". Now all we need is "Hannibal: The Musical" to make the series complete.
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Hannibal Rises To The Ocassion
Added 9/24/2009
Some people have complained about Thomas Harris writing the screenplay as well as the novel to "Hannibal Rising"; well after the way David Mamet and Steve Zaillion's screenplay butcheded the end of "Hannibal", I am sure that he did not want HIS character getting ruined again. I throughly enjoyed watching Hannibal do away with those who truly deserved it; especially those who killed his sister. I absolutely enjoyed the way he cut down the butcher who was rude to his aunt. It is ashame that the series seems to have come to an end with this book/movie. I will always look forward to any adventures with the good doctor.
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