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 Hannibal: The Wonder Years..., 2008-11-13
The only thing I had heard about HANNIBAL RISING was that it was awful. So, I put off watching it until last night. I was shocked to see a well thought out tale of unimaginable childhood trauma, revenge, and psychopathic evolution. Hannibal Lecter (Gaspard Urriel) is a young man w/ no goal in life, other than to avenge the cannibalistic death of his little sister, Mischa. His mind is set. His conscience is clear. His mission is absolute. Hannibal lives only to keep his promise to Mischa, and there will be much blood shed in the process. Learning the ways of the Samurai from his aunt, Lady Murasaki (Gong Li), Hannibal hones his skills in medical school, using cadavers as practice subjects. Human anatomy becomes Hannibal's roadmap in his quest for the most efficient methods of extermination. This will be very useful to him later on. Hannibal Lecter has grown up. His soul long shredded and lost, he takes those first steps. His will be a long and memorable career...
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 Very Good Horror Film - Nothing More , 2008-10-05
To begin a review of this film I think it is very important to acknowledge that it is is no way of the caliber of the Hannibal Lecter films with Anthony Hopkins and is in no way an intense psychological profile based horror film with deep characterizations. It is in no way a SILENCE OF THE LAMBS. Luckily, I came into this knowing the book and movie both got bad reviews so I had no expectations. And this allowed me to watch this film and enjoy it as a separate entity from SILENCE OF THE LAMBS.
The idea of seeing how the young Hannibal developed his desires and tastes for cruelty and sadistic murder is very intriguing and the plot certainly is overblown. His family lived in Lithuania during the war and he watched his parents get killed and when he and his sister were alone, he saw soldiers invade the house and eventually devour his sister - supposedly in order to survive for they had no food. Of course if a person viewed all this they would be affected for life.
I found Gaspard Ulliel, who plays Hannibal, to have a very strong screen presence and totally believed his madness and the purpose of avenging the death of his sister as a reason/excuse to begin his avenging those who were a part of her death. What was difficult for me was that he did not speak until he finds his way to the home of his aunt and when he finally spoke it was very quietly and he had a very strong accent that had no hint whatsoever of how Hannibal spoke later in life as played by Anthony Hopkins. The introduction of the aunt causes some confusion in the script. She teaches him martial arts and how to use swords. We do see how he possesses this ability but we don't see why she taught him this.
The last half of the film was excellent but not as a prequel explaining the true story of Hannibal Lecter but as an excellent horror film. Each murder he commits is gruesome and very well filmed. It is a quality horror film. I believed his intensity and developing madness and was able to appreciate this film for what it was.
If you watch this film thinking you will see an intriguing intro ino the madness of Hannibal Lecter of the quality of SILENCE OF THE LAMBS you will be greatly disappointed. But as a horror movie in its own right it is excellently made. The acting is all around very good, the scares are there and the gore is plentiful and utilized in believable ways. I ended up really enjoying this film for what it was.
Watch this with no more expectations than seing a fun, quality horror film that happens to have Hannibal Lecter in it. The reasons for his desire to kill are fully explained but in a simple way but why his madness kept on evolving and he took pleasure in being a true monster is left alone. You believe he is a monster but it is meant to just be accepted.
hannibal rising, 2008-09-01
very good movie,new,recieved in very short time. Overall, complete satisfaction with the product and AMAZON.COM .
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 The only thing rising was my blood pressure, 2008-08-16
What a load of distasteful rot! But let's put aside the utterly feeble main lead, the idiotic pantomime villains and the tedious, sick and overly-drawn out plot...
What I want explaining is this... why was there a crescendo of build-up to the 'dramatic' moment when the young Lecter pulls on a face mask for the first time??
He would never had had this mask as a teenager - it was only ever put on his face many years later, when he was an adult prisoner in jail, to stop him biting people!
Fortunately this ludicrous and appalling gaping hole in the plot comes about 20 minutes into this 17-hour bum-number, by which time you will either have fallen asleep, or thrown your DVD player out the window in disgust.
Overall a worthless and cheap cash-in on the Hannibal Lecter 'franchise'... spend your money instead on a nice piece of liver and a bottle of Chianti.
 Blech, what am I missing?, 2008-08-03
I am a HUGE fan of the Hannibal movies. SOTL is my favorite movie of all time and I can quote lines with the best of them. This movie...I don't know, doesn't it seem like...more could have been done with it? Admittedly, I did not read the book.
Look, there is a REASON that no major young star would touch the role. Do you think this kid was the first one offered the part? Please. When you have a franchise that successful, and then another one comes out with no major stars...you KNOW a bunch of people said "No, thanks" because it was a stinker on paper (the script).
One positive: Just like the Anthony Hopkins older H.L. manages - through the horrors of what he does - to sort of be likeable in a weird way, so was this guy. In this case, it's because you can understand his desire for revenge on the people who murdered and ATE his sibling! I guess what makes him a true "monster" is that he acts on it. And once he got a taste (no pun intended), he never could stop.
I'm just really surprised that the ratings on this averaged as many stars as they did! I seriously must have missed something.
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