Hannibal the Cannibal

The first of the 3 movies about Dr.Hannibal Lecter chronologically speaking for the story. It is also the second movie of seeing Edward Norton in action after Fight Club which was a nice suprise for me. So, Red Dragon shows a misused serial killer (because of his grandma) and a retired detective doing just one last case because he got told that he has the amazing ability to think like a killer.

Oh and also of course, the infamous appearance of Dr.Hannibal Lecter is found in the movie, who manipulates the other two characters in a clever way. It also seems this is another movie where the theme Multiple personality disorder is flying around as well.

It's an interesting thing though that this disorder can be used in many original ways. One last thing to note is that the relation between the serial killer and the blind woman was interesting to view, not quite an ordinary love story as far as I know. In anyway for me though, Red Dragon is a good start for probaply an intelligent crime story.

Rating: 7.0

Well this is it, the most famous thriller movie out of them all. Dr.Hannibal Lecter's best story so far for me, and it also has this woman as the main character called Clarice Starling with another funny southern, Cowboyish country language, just like in Forrest Gump.

The Silence of the Lambs also has another interesting serial killer, Buffalo Bill, equally interesting as Francis Dolarhyde from Red Dragon, but has entirely other reasons for his killings. And what makes Thriller movies usually interesting to view besides the cast of characters presented?

That's right, either investigating and solving the crime(s) or finding out about the truth, or in some cases, it's an open ending or the viewer never gets to know to why's of horrible things found in Thriller movies, like the murders which took place in Memories of Murder(2003).

The Silence of the Lambs is both a solve to a serie of crimes(Buffalo Bill is eliminated) and an open ending (Dr.Hannibal Lecter escapes), which means the story is not over yet, as truthfully seen in Hannibal, the third novel/movie about Dr.Hannibal Lecter, which I have yet to see. In the end, The Silence of the Lambs was a fun ride with a deep story and interesting killers.

Rating: 7.5

Dr.Hannibal Lecter is even more interesting to follow this time as we dive into his personal hiding life this time, away from the cops. Clarice Starling has trouble this time  because even though she shot 5 armed humans including a mother holding her baby, she got dismissed by her own FBI team.

But there's more than meets the eye here though, because Paul Krendler, who works in the U.S. Department of Justice, has secretly tried to get as much of information out of Clarice so that Mason Verger, his boss and a past patient of Dr.Hannibal Lecter himself, could get his revenge, because Lecter drugged him in the past to horribly self damage himself.

There's also an inspector around the movie, Pazzi, who tries to capture Lecter as well for a reward. It was easy to guess though that this person would die. Further on Mason get betrayed by his own doctor and dies by the hand of man eating boars, which are owned to some of his henchmen, who previously got eaten up by them as well, before they started to eat on Verger.

And in the climax, we see an interesting dinner scene, and after that Lecter's unusual relationship with Clarice get more personal every second, and in the end it is Lecter who loses one of his hands. And after an Asian boy eats a of part Paul Krendler's brain, I stand here thinking that I liked Hannibal more than Red Dragon atleast. It actually also got close to being as good as The Silence of the Lambs. Yes, it was a fine movie.

Rating: 6.5 

Prequel for the Hannibal Lecter character, as we are shown his childhood and adolescence and so on here. Disliked the direction it was going, and I could not familiarize Lecter's personality here. Of course, that takes time when looking back at the previous movies, but still, it stands.

Rating: 5.0

Terrific earliest movie adaptation from the popular serial killer books by Thomas Harris, I’m having a hard time as to which I like more, this or Red Dragon(2002). A retired FBI cop is persuaded by his former boss to hunt down a notorious killer nicknamed as the Tooth Fairy, while he consults the help from another brilliant serial killer named Hannibal Lecktor. The focus on the cop himself was great to follow in his footsteps, and the soundtrack is although very 80’s, effective. Unsolving the motivation behind Francis Dollarhyde is the driving plot and it’s filled with mysteries. The ending is different here.

Rating: 7.0

Detailing the early years of Hannibal the Cannibal Lecter. No more played by Anthony Hopkins, Mads Mikkelsen takes the cape over effectively, and alongside him, whether he is a partner or not, Wil Graham is a teacher turned criminal profiler for his unique ability to replay crime scenes according from his perspective, instinct, sixth sense, and so on.

He also suffers from some kind of nightmares and/or hallucinations, and he has the strange tendency to emphasize with the criminals. Hannibal features morbid depictions of body mutilations, decapitations and more pathological feasts, making it a disturbing journey.

Admittedly, it took me a while before I truly started appreciating the story, writing and characters except for Hannibal's personality being memorable the moment he was introduced. As a mixture of appearing as a gentleman, being both sophisticated, intelligent and psychopathic, he is a friend as well as a foe for the rest of the cast, including Laurence Fishburne. Also, Hannibal's dishes served for his guests became more impressive to the point of excellence and very high quality.

Rating: 7.5