You can argue that prequels to great films simply shouldn’t be made. But when they are, this is the right way to do it.
Denver Post February 9, 2007 There’s a certain stylishness from director Peter Webber (Girl With a Pearl Earring), but not enough good acting to make it stick.
detnews.com February 9, 2007 Director Peter Webber delivers all this with a painfully straight face, and the result is actually less interesting than your average horror m...
I can’t name an actor who could have made young Lecter as interesting as the older one, but Ulliel does not come close.
timeoutny.com February 17, 2007 Thomas Harris is now hoodwinked by his creation’s faux pedigree. He’s scripted him a ridiculously Eurotrashy upbringing, one so si...
Slant Magazine February 7, 2007 The more we learn about the bogeyman, the less terrifying he becomes.
How much more interesting – and scary – to have given Hannibal a perfectly happy boyhood with not the smallest occasion for anger or...
Hannibal Rising is basically a Steven Seagal vigilante movie with a hero who eats the people he kills. At least it’s ecofriendly.
A straightforward revenge drama with added gore.
What this nasty, brutish movie left me feeling was ashamed to be American. First of all: As a folk archetype, a supervillain for our times, th...
Harris, who adapted the screenplay, and director Peter Webber are faithful to his book. Strong production values, a lush score and scenic locations...
[Hannibal Rising] shows us the death of a little boy, and the birth of a monster, but at no point does it make us want to look over our s...
calendarlive.com February 9, 2007 Lacking the wit to qualify as a sick joke, the ongoing saga of Hannibal Lecter has become the Grand Guignol equivalent of a shaggy-dog st...
outlookindia.com January 25, 2019 In a nutshell, it’s all about the hideous ways of killing, flesh-pounding images, slain heads, blood and gore.
ReelViews February 8, 2007 Critical miscalculations at every turn have taken this latest (and hopefully last) Hannibal movie beyond the realm of camp and into that special he...
Austin Chronicle February 7, 2007 By erasing all the mystery from Lecter’s past, Harris and director Webber have also stripped him of his ability to terrify, and their film, t...
Boston.com February 9, 2007 Formerly masterful novelist Thomas Harris continues to pimp out the serial-killing cannibal he (and Anthony Hopkins) made famous.
