Hannibal (2001)
Country: US
Technical: Technicolor 132m
Director: Ridley Scott
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Julianne Moore, Ray Liotta, Giancarlo Giannini, Francesca Neri, Gary Oldman
Synopsis:
After an FBI drug operation goes badly wrong, Agent Starling is made a scapegoat and reassigned to the Lecter case; meanwhile his fourth victim is financing his own manhunt with bloody revenge in mind.
Review:
What with its picture postcard locations and bons mots, this resembles nothing so much as the serial killer equivalent of a Bond movie, with Hopkins as the cultured hero. Immensely enjoyable for all its gruesome detail, and shot in Scott's glossy, and increasingly arty, style; it was also hugely successful at the box office, which says a lot about the times, both in people's need for unpalatable horrors as an antidote to the comfort of their lives, and in the seductive concept of relative evil (in this case the disfigured victim, a paedophile, is more detestable than the barbaric killer, a doctor).
Country: US
Technical: Technicolor 132m
Director: Ridley Scott
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Julianne Moore, Ray Liotta, Giancarlo Giannini, Francesca Neri, Gary Oldman
Synopsis:
After an FBI drug operation goes badly wrong, Agent Starling is made a scapegoat and reassigned to the Lecter case; meanwhile his fourth victim is financing his own manhunt with bloody revenge in mind.
Review:
What with its picture postcard locations and bons mots, this resembles nothing so much as the serial killer equivalent of a Bond movie, with Hopkins as the cultured hero. Immensely enjoyable for all its gruesome detail, and shot in Scott's glossy, and increasingly arty, style; it was also hugely successful at the box office, which says a lot about the times, both in people's need for unpalatable horrors as an antidote to the comfort of their lives, and in the seductive concept of relative evil (in this case the disfigured victim, a paedophile, is more detestable than the barbaric killer, a doctor).
Country: US
Technical: Technicolor 132m
Director: Ridley Scott
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Julianne Moore, Ray Liotta, Giancarlo Giannini, Francesca Neri, Gary Oldman
Synopsis:
After an FBI drug operation goes badly wrong, Agent Starling is made a scapegoat and reassigned to the Lecter case; meanwhile his fourth victim is financing his own manhunt with bloody revenge in mind.
Review:
What with its picture postcard locations and bons mots, this resembles nothing so much as the serial killer equivalent of a Bond movie, with Hopkins as the cultured hero. Immensely enjoyable for all its gruesome detail, and shot in Scott's glossy, and increasingly arty, style; it was also hugely successful at the box office, which says a lot about the times, both in people's need for unpalatable horrors as an antidote to the comfort of their lives, and in the seductive concept of relative evil (in this case the disfigured victim, a paedophile, is more detestable than the barbaric killer, a doctor).