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After escaping death by the peel of his teeth while on the hunt for the elusive madman, Dr Hannibal Lecter, the now-retired and emotionally scarred FBI agent, Will Graham, finds himself back in activity. Reluctantly, equally yet another monstrous serial killer known as "The Tooth Fairy" terrorises Baltimore, Graham turns to Lecter, the evil mastermind who's been under lock and key for 3 long years, to lend a hand in this challenging and time-sensitive case. But, to delve deep into the demented mind of a killer, one must start face his inner demons, and Volition already knows that his insane imprisoned assistant is a gifted manipulator. Can Graham find the horrifying Red Dragon in time earlier another family suffers? —Nick Riganas
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Another great motion picture that slipped under the radar of most
This was a fantastic flick, but information technology slipped under many people's radar for three reasons:
1) The critics said (and rightly and then) that it is not equally good as the Silence of the Lambs. However, I find it difficult to compare the films, largely because Will Graham (Norton) is completely different to Clarice Starling (Foster). The dissimilar dimension they bring to the investigation is plenty, by itself, to distinguish them across comparison.
2) This was the third motion picture in the series. The problem with the Hollywood pumping out an absurd number of sequels and prequels (even when the original moving-picture show was terrible to brainstorm with) is that it alters the public'due south attitude towards them. People are commonly happy to see the "part 2" but beyond that, y'all're ordinarily down to loyalists. In fact, this situation has been made worse due to the fact that many of the sequels made are shockingly bad (eg, the American Pie sequels, the Highlander sequels). Some are so terrible that they can really tarnish the retentiveness of the original (eg... Matrix Revolutions). Then a tertiary Hannibal film was e'er going to be an uphill boxing.
iii) This followed an awful sequel: Hannibal. People who thought Hannibal was terrible (and there'due south no shortage of them) are likely to plough their nose up at any further sequels or prequels. That's what Hollywood always overlooks - once you pump out one bad sequel (eg, Ocean's Twelve 2004), fewer people will even consider seeing the adjacent sequel, unless information technology receives almost unanimous disquisitional acclaim.
I did non like Hannibal either and I recall that many stars in Hollywood would take turned information technology downward later reading the script. Jodie Foster, with the offer of reprising her university application winning role, and Jon Demme (managing director of Silence of the lambs) walked away from the Hannibal later disagreements with writer (Harris) over the graphic symbol directions. Hopkins well-nigh left when Foster and Demme walked, but was persuaded to stay (probably with a nice salary increment!). In whatsoever example, central elements were gone and in my view, they ultimately failed to attract a strong supporting cast.
Past contrast, I think many actors would have been falling over themselves to state ane of the roles in Ruby Dragon subsequently reading the script. Accordingly, we concluded up with Hopkins (reprising his academy award winning role to absolute perfection), Norton (who is the rightful winner of the academy award for American History Ten in my view, even though the academy went to someone else that twelvemonth), Harvey Keitel, Ralph Finnes and the brilliant, but nether-rated, Phillip Seymore Hoffman. They combine to breath tremendous life into this investigative/thriller. And the opening five minutes is magnificent.
However, I accept ii criticisms that toll it a star. First, information technology wasn't quite dark enough. Possibly that masterpiece, the Silence of the Lambs, used upwards all the visceral attributes that were so pathetically contrived in Hannibal and present, but not powerfully nowadays, in Red Dragon. There certainly was a nighttime edge, simply it just didn't become under my skin the way Silence of the Lambs did (if you'll forgive the pun).
Second, I felt that there were a few off-shoots to the principal plot that could have been worked around or seemed to play no real role in the film any. For instance, the tense relationship between Norton and the reporter (Hoffman), Finnes taking the blind daughter to listen to the sedated tiger (or lion or whatever information technology was), Norton teaching his wife to shoot ... and many others. About of the fourth dimension, I felt that they should have been left on the cutting room floor equally they were of little interest, had lilliputian (if whatever) office in the context of the story and accordingly, unnecessarily bulked out the running time of the motion picture.
Otherwise, terrific viewing. Don't exist dissuaded by Hannibal - this sequel achieves where that one so dismally failed.
- mattrochman
- Jul 3, 2006
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