[Hannibal Rising] shows us the death of a little boy, and the birth of a monster, but at no point does it make us want to look over our shoulder.

| May 22, 2019

In a nutshell, it's all about the hideous ways of killing, flesh-pounding images, slain heads, blood and gore.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 25, 2019

| Original Score: D | Sep 7, 2011

Thomas Harris is now hoodwinked by his creation's faux pedigree. He's scripted him a ridiculously Eurotrashy upbringing, one so silly, it'll remind you of Dr. Evil's memory-tripping: "Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons..."

| Original Score: 2/6 | Feb 17, 2007

Hannibal Rising is basically a Steven Seagal vigilante movie with a hero who eats the people he kills. At least it's ecofriendly.

| Feb 12, 2007

In the finest tradition of 온라인카지노추천 newsmagazines, Hannibal Lecter's penchant for serial murder turns out to be the result of a traumatic childhood.

| Feb 12, 2007

By allowing himself to be talked into doing this Harris has diluted and sullied his most storied creating, robbing Lecter of much of his power to fill our dreams with dread and our nightmares with bloodcurdling screams of the shocking.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 9, 2007

The most accurate title might have been "Hannibal Falling" because that's what this film does to the legacy of Hannibal Lecter.

Full Review | Feb 9, 2007

What this nasty, brutish movie left me feeling was ashamed to be American. First of all: As a folk archetype, a supervillain for our times, this is the best we can come up with? A vaguely Eurotrash schoolboy who eats people's cheeks?

| Feb 9, 2007

Tilting his elegantly aquiline features downward while hoisting one eyebrow over a dark orb, curling his lips with Grinchian deliberation, he seems to be determined to kill people on the strength of his cologne alone.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 9, 2007

If they were going to show how he got to be the brilliant, charming, exquisitely cultured, uh, vicious cannibal psychopath -- couldn't they have come up with something more interesting?

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 9, 2007

You can argue that prequels to great films simply shouldn't be made. But when they are, this is the right way to do it.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 9, 2007

There is no action-movie cliché too rusty to be wheeled forth.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 9, 2007

I can't name an actor who could have made young Lecter as interesting as the older one, but Ulliel does not come close.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 9, 2007

Lacking the wit to qualify as a sick joke, the ongoing saga of Hannibal Lecter has become the Grand Guignol equivalent of a shaggy-dog story.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Feb 9, 2007

Harris, who adapted the screenplay, and director Peter Webber are faithful to his book. Strong production values, a lush score and scenic locations work seal the deal.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 9, 2007

As played by French actor Gaspard Ulliel, Hannibal is a playing-card joker: Ulliel performs every scene with the same dimpled smirk, which looks less like an expression than a plastic-surgery mistake.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 9, 2007

Director Peter Webber delivers all this with a painfully straight face, and the result is actually less interesting than your average horror movie of the week.

| Original Score: D | Feb 9, 2007

He's just another cheap icon, set not to haunt our worst nightmares, but the cash-cow dreams of a studio looking for a franchise player.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 9, 2007

There's a certain stylishness from director Peter Webber (Girl With a Pearl Earring), but not enough good acting to make it stick.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 9, 2007