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| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Peter Webber |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 09 February, 2007 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Weinstein Company |
| MPAA RATING: | R (Restricted) |
| FEATURES: | Closed-captioned, Color, Widescreen, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Cannibals, Color, Creepy, Disturbing, English, Evil Children, Feature, France, Gore, Gruesome, Haunted By the Past, Horror, Horror / Sci-Fi / Fantasy, Lurid, Menacing, Movie, Profanity, Psychological Thriller, Serial Killers, Sexual Situations |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 796019802413 |
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Customer Reviews of Hannibal Rising (Unrated Widescreen Edition)
Not great but more watchable than Hannibal Hannibal Rising can best be described as disturbing, gruesome and totally insane. It's also well made and creepy. Gaspard Ulliel plays Hannibal Lector who wants revenge on starving soldiers who ate his little sister right in front of him when he was young. Once he starts killing he starts to enjoy it a little too much. <
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> The movie plays a little like Batman Begins. He gets some training in the way of the sword. Then all of a sudden he's ready to be a killer and it comes easy to him. "Spoiler", he kills a guy that disrepects a woman he has feelings for. She's even a bit out there, she acts as if receiving the head is like getting a dosen roses and says "you shouldn't have done this for me". <
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> Things like that are a bit silly but Gaspard Ulliel still does a good job carrying the movie as Hannibal Lector even if he is no Anthony Hopkins. His expressions basically make his performance though. He has fun in the movie playing Hannibal and throwing out one-liners here and there. But I doubt viewers will have as much of a good time with all the over the top violence. So for that I can only mildly recommend this movie. Also eventhough Gaspard faired well as Hannibal, I rather see Anthony Hopkins back one more time to make a beter movie than Hannibal.
Here's the problem:
Sociopaths of the Lecter variety are either born, or they are created by maltreatment from earliest infancy. The Hannibal character in this film/story was much too far along in age... was he six, or seven?... to have been vulnerable to the mind-warping machinations which produce psychopathic behavior toward others. It was attempted in the story to show that he had no feelings, as when he registered nothing on the lie-detector test, and the French police detective said that the "human" part of Lecter had died in the snow, when he was found by Russian soldiers.
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>It's feasible that the character would want revenge for seeing his sister murdered and cannibalized, but ordinarily that would not make him demented toward other people... not to the extent that one becomes a regular serial killer.
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>I think Thomas Harris dropped the ball with his Hannibal origins. His book "Red Dragon" was actually the best tale in the series, with the best plot and characterization. The rest has been entertaining, but the rest has all lacked the same depth as the book "Red Dragon" exhibited.
Means to an end
Some franchises should just know when it's time to hang it up once and for all. Hannibal Rising is a prequel to everything else we've seen our favorite cannibal in, and upon viewing it you may wish you hadn't. If you read Thomas Harris' Hannibal novel, then you'll probably remember the brief glimpse of backstory given to Hannibal Lecter's (Gaspard Ulliel) origin, of which this prequel capatilizes on. As we witness the atrocities performed on Lecter and his family, we see the boy grow towards adulthood with revenge on his mind, and who can blame him really? What kills Hannibal Rising is that Lecter isn't frightening at all throughout the film. What helped make Silence of the Lambs so good, and to a degree Red Dragon (I wasn't fond of Ridley Scott's Hannibal at all) is that Lecter was a frightening, and brilliant, psychopath who became one of the most memorable screen villians of all time. Here, he's relegated to a sympathetic state, and it doesn't work. Not to mention that to say that Gaspard Ulliel doesn't fit the role is saying it lightly, and the rest of an otherwise solid cast (including Gong Li, Kevin McKidd, and Dominic West) are pretty much wasted in their roles. Peter Webber's direction, while stylish, is ultimately empty, and a majority of the film plays out like an overlong slasher. While there are a good amount of creepy moments and some solid, grisly effects, Hannibal Rising is a dud, and hopefully, the means to an end for a franchise that has been picked clean.