![]() ![]() Of course, I'de be lying if I said that I didn't find this story deeply compelling. It's easy to recover from this, but if you kick-off the series with this, then chances are you're going to get very thrown-off. ![]() It was the mystery and horror behind Hannibal Lecter that made him so compelling and for them to just make up execuses for him damages his greatest attributes. The tension is down and that greatly contributes to dilution of the darkness behind the franchise. It's certainly not suppose to feel like another edition to the series, but this tone is completely unrecognizable. Getting more into the story, it does deviate from the rest of the Thomas Harris series tremendously. Of course, that's not the films only flaws, as it also suffers from a lack of immediate development, unengaging points, a few blatant hints to the other films and a pretty corny second half that comes down to a mildly cop-out ending. It just means that the storytelling is really messy, which it is and in a variety of ways. Still, at the moment, I'm not really feeling the chill anymore, but that doesn't mean that this is a bad film. Well, I say that now, but after this film cools-down in my memory, I'm gonna think back to that scene in "Hannibal" where he casually escorts a strapped-down man to a balcony, eviscerates him and then hangs him off of the balcony so his guts will fall out and think differently. Of course, Hannibal Lecter's an entirely different type of dark, so whereas everyone can get over Batman's cheesy backstory (As overrated as the "Nolan Batman" series is, I have to agree that I can get over that) Lecter's backstory completely dilutes the darkness, brilliance and mystery that made him so chilling. First it was Batman and now it's Hannibal Lecter. We have these awesome, dark, gritty characters who have served as brooding icons for many years and then we get a backstory that crowbars samurais in, from out of no where and then everything starts to corn up. Rating: R (Some Language|Sexual References|Strong Grisly Violent Content) An aptitude for science helps Hannibal gain acceptance to medical school, where he hones the skills he needs to exact revenge for the atrocities he witnessed. He learns his uncle is dead, but the man's mysterious Japanese widow, Lady Murasaki (Gong Li) welcomes him nonetheless. After witnessing the violent deaths of his parents at the end of World War II, young Hannibal Lecter (Gaspard Ulliel) flees to his uncle's home in Paris. ![]()
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