william s
Where Silence of the Lambs made you feel the weight of the story and a guttural attraction to Lecter’s predatory charisma, Hannibal trades tension for indulgence. The psychological cat-and-mouse game is gone, replaced with a thin veneer of opulence and class, both in design and score, that desperately tries to mask the movie’s vacuous core. What remains is something less cerebral, less gripping, and far more interested in bland grotesquery than true suspense.
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Rated 2 out of 5 stars
03/24/25
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K K
Well, most movies Moore is in and Hopkins tends to be movies that deliver enough for me to like. Like a favorite restaurant that puts out dishes and most turn out pretty good. A movie right is food for our entertainment. These two delivered their parts in this movie.
This is the next part to character from Silence of Lambs but FBI agent Sterling further along into her job. WOW, talks about discussions of real life events. Those with power who we want to think and some truly believe are always right, pursuing justice, being fair and reasonable are exposed for being narcissistic, double-dealing, corrupt, shady and jealous of the actual hero, Sterling, walking the talk and doing such integrity. We can only hope there are Sterlings out in this world. Law enforcement people who want to get to the truth are not pigeons for the affluent and connected so that they can achieve advancement. Moore delivers.
Hopkins delivers again as Dr. Lector/Dr. Fell. A brilliant person, with some very dark and illegal tendencies but actually more of a moral compass for truth than some of the so-called "law enforcement" people. Wow, there are so many layers to this character and Hopkins brings many of them alive.
Hopkin's character delivers lines to Sterling that are weapons laced with the truth. Yet other than Sterling, Dr. Lector/Dr. Fell is actually one of the few to be true to their word.
A cat and mouse chase movie overall with Sterling under the delusion she can make a difference in the world, while entangled in the corrupt nature of people working for "law enforcement".
Good cast, well acted, good action, interesting scenes, and some GROSS moments!
Some of expectations and thoughts due to the first movie might have impacted people's thoughts on this movie. Pre-planned thoughts of what wanted.
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
03/06/25
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João Victor M
I really liked the movie, but I do have a few considerations. Clarice Starling, now portrayed by Julianne Moore, feels very different. Of course, ten years have passed since the first film, both in real life and in the story, but I still feel like it didn’t quite fit. It seems like a completely different officer, not the true Clarice. That said, Gary Oldman’s performance as Mason Verger was excellent, and the makeup in this film was flawless.
Speaking of Inspector Rinaldo, portrayed by Giancarlo Giannini, I thought the casting was a very interesting choice. His character arc was well-developed, showing how his love for money outweighed his principles. I liked that, even though his ending wasn’t the most positive.
Towards the end of the film, I think things got a bit off-track. I agree there are moments that suggest a potential relationship between Hannibal and Clarice, or maybe even a romanticization of it, but we had the twist that this wasn’t really the case, which worked. However, I think the lobotomy scene was presented in a rather exaggerated and inconsistent way. It felt like they forgot it was a movie and just focused too much on the visual impact, something that had already been impressively conveyed with Hannibal’s victim.
Overall, the way they built the search for Hannibal and other plot elements was very well done, and the director did a great job with the storytelling. I just think the lobotomy part could’ve been more restrained.
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
02/21/25
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thiago s
Filme fraco, o roteiro é fraco, as fracas são fracas e salvaram um pouco o filme, mas a história e os personagens são meio fracos para filme, o filme teve só uma cena boa que foi quando o hannibal lecter mostrou a parte do cérebro cortado só isso, por que de resto é fraco
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Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars
02/14/25
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Orin D
The acting was fabulous throughout, but as has ben noted, the gory action goes from gross to grotesque to camp in three minutes. Hannibal feeding a curious child fried brain is in the end more silly than scary. I hope the third film is a return to form, but I doubt it will, but I've signed on for the full ride.
Orin D.
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Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars
01/04/25
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Chris D
There is a limit to a person's genius, in this movie, Lecter escapes and evades and out manuervuers, with some luck too, like some sort of magical being, emphasised by the conclusion (spoilers), should be bleeding heavily and not exactly young, somehow manages to end up on a flight to the far east. Every airport would have his picture and be looking for a one handed man who somehow always has money to move around, it's so blasé with the details, it's ludicrous and never concluded as the mass murderer lives happily ever after.
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars
12/30/24
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