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Why the fuck did they get Gaspard Ulliel he was horrible and I know im going far here but when I think hannibal i think Hopkins and this guy doesn't look anything like Hopkins I mean the face shape and everything, what a horrible choice and he killed the movie for me.
Posted By: caseynight88 at 11:15am, September 27, 2009
Aside from the chillingly convincing performance of the lead actor, this is a boring, painfully slow prequel that should never have happened.
Posted By: trickytreats at 7:35pm, September 11, 2009
This film is amazing. Better than the original, much better acting too. Hannibal Rising is a basic plotted horror, about the life on Lector, and what he got up too. Basic plot, but it does suck you into the action, unlike some horror movies around. Great acting, great gory death scenes and a really good horror movie.
It makes me laugh how everyone hates this film because Anthony Hopkins isn't in it! ITS A PREQUEL!! I thought the man who played young Hannibal was a great solid actor and this installment to the Hannibal series is one not to be missed! IT has a fantastic storyline and it's nice to get a biit of background on Hannibal, I love a good old revenge story. You must watch this, but please don't expect Anthony Hopkins to be in it!
I always wonder why the do these type of movies backwards?.....I mean I guess making sequals are good to make but slience of the lambs was the best.....I feel that they didn't need to do this movie they could of explain his childhood in bit and pieces in this one......I watched movie it was ok at lease I saw the reason for Hannibal lector reasons.
I suppose this movie could have been worse than it actually was, but it was by no means a great movie. When I rate movies, especially those that are part of a series, I tend to compare to the other movies of the series. This is by far the weakest chapter in the Hannibal Lector series. I think the kid they got to play a young Hannibal did a fine job, but I really didn't think the story was any good. Frankly if the character wasn't Hannibal Lector and was just some random character, this movie would have no appeal to me at all. There are worse movies out there, but this one is definetly not a must see movie.
Posted By: BK's Finest at 12:30pm, December 23, 2008
Yeah I agree. I enjoyed the movie and it was very well put written and acted. True, you know can't help feeling for him. The scenes from when he was a little boy and what the looters did to his little sister very much disturbed me but that's all part of a good movie too.
Yes we all knew how Hannibal was going to end up, DUH its a prequal... But I found this movie very well done and entertaining ...Even knowing what he does later you still feel for him and to me that makes a good movie !!!! You know hes evil but now you kinda know why........
Posted By: Protecious at 2:24pm, September 30, 2008
A failed attempt to make a hannibal lector film without the real hannibal lector played by anthony hopkins, not even in a once rumored narrative role, which is what could have at least helped the film a tiny bit, i didnt find the film that interesting and it doesnt make me feel any sympathy for hannibal, if that's what they were looking for. alot of prequels fail in doing what starts off as a nice idea but the end result is regretful.
Posted By: LilaFreakk at 2:10pm, September 19, 2008
The plot was flat and obvious and there's no guessing involved or that element of suspence that keeps you on your seat. It is a crap way of explaining the origins of the legendary Hannibal, but it's sensible enough for me to consider it rational rather than awe striking. It reduces him to a text book case, and that truly is murder, but the film in general I considered good on my best of moods mostly because of its production quality, music, acting, and style.
the script was bland, simple, and too straight forward, but the detail in acting it i found almost exhilarating when it came to our boy hannibal. i don't hate it as much as other people because i choose not to compare it to silence of the lambs or the magnificent character of the original hannibal lecter. instead, i see him as another character, perhaps from another universe, and then i realize how remarkably composed this new hannibal is.
what made him what he was is a dullard of a tale and his background is stereotypical to high degrees, but the present character that he is has a certain allure about him. i have to say they chose the right actor to suit the role. putting the movie as a whole aside, they couldn't have chosen a better guy to play young hannibal.
there's just this ethereal presence about him as if he floated above the ground on which he walked with a delicate air. if there's any relation to the orginal hannibal, he certain pulls off the charm, the sophistication, and the slyness. the sex apeal to put it simply, and no hannibal lecter would be hannibal lecter without it. even when the movie gives you all the little sucky background info on him you still look at him and watch him be and it seems as if it cancels out the entire horrible plot and what happened before was a mystery.
it might not be the best of stories to tell, but i should say it was better than Hannibal and Red Dragon movie-wise.
and i do feel sorry for Harris being forced into writing this. he was threatened that if he couldn't make an origins story they'd find someone else cuz they have to "continue the francise" as they say
i honestly dont think there should be an origins story trying to explain the great doctor EVER and most of the time i don't connect this the original, but i gotta say his character in this film was brilliant if you're the type to observe tiny details and feel electrified from it almost.
but i AM a girl and i guess one of the reasons why i would like this more than a completely straight guy watching it haha
Originally I was not going to see this, as there is no point in seeing it. Now I still know that AND I've seen it.
de Laurentis forced Thomas Harris' hand in the creation of this story. After 'Hannibal', de Laurentis told Harris that he was going to do the origins story, whether Harris wanted to write it or not. So poor Harris coughed up a book and a screenplay (and I'm not touching 'Hannibal Rising' because I got all the Lecter origins story I needed from the few paragraphs regarding Mischa in 'Hannibal').
This is what happens when a rich producer forces creative talent to go where it shouldn't: utter disaster. This story is NOT about Hannibal Lecter of "Silence" or of "Red Dragon" or even of "Hannibal". This is a different character, with different details coloring his life. I think the main actor does an okay job of nailing the Hannibal looks but he is atrocious with dialogue.
Obviously, production value is outstanding but sadly the script does not rise to meet it.
This is a straightforward revenge for Mischa's death, and it is a BAD origins story.
I expected the majority of it to be set during Hannibal's childhood, and if I were directing this, it would have been an art-house cannibal piece set entirely during Hannibal's childhood and ending with him escaping the ravenous creatures who devoured his sister. AT least I could have got a shot of when Hannibal finds Mischa's tooth in the men's stool and realizes then what has happened to his sister (it's a repeated memory in 'Hannibal' book).
Instead, this movie gives an outrageous plot of a young Hannibal attending medical school and accomplishing his first few murders and learning how cherished and yummy cheeks are. For a film about the penultimate serial killer cannibal, this movie has minimal killing and NO cannibalism on screen AT ALL. What a fucking waste of time and time and time and money and Harris' talent!!!! Dino de Laurentis: whut a cant.
This has to be one of the single worst movies I have ever forced myself to watch in my lifetime. I only watched it for a girl I liked at the time, and even as obsessed with her as I was, I couldn’t force myself to like this.
The entire movie is a cliché inside of a cliché. You think you’ve seen cliché movies before, right? Disturbia, 30 Days of Night, The Mist, The Decent. You know the list. But this movie makes all those movies look like the height of originality. It basically takes everything the History Channel has to say about the most average, lame, predictable serial killer alive and dumbs it down into a movie script.
In other words, you’ve seen this movie before if you’re over the age of 9 and have any idea about generic serial killers in children’s books.
Hannibal himself looks like a prettyboy. Wait! An emo prettyboy who is too much of a pansy to get over his “traumatic” (but not graphic) events of his childhood, which is yet another cliché.
I’d also like to know why on earth this was rated R. There is nothing more graphic in this movie than you could see on your standard TV show. I was so insanely bored with it I was about to punch out the TV.
I’ve seen bad movies. This isn’t a bad movie: it’s a training video for hell.
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