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Hannibal [DVD] [2001]
enlarge	Director: Ridley Scott Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Mark Margolis, Julianne Moore, Gary Oldman, Ray Liotta Studio: Universal Pictures UK Category: DVD List Price: ~~£9.99~~ Buy New: £1.60 as of 22/11/2009 21:03 GMT details You Save: £8.39 (84%) New (20) Used (31) Collectible (4) from £1.17 Seller: findprice Rating: 17 reviews Sales Rank: 3081 Format: PAL Language: English (Original Language) Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over Region: 2 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 126 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 5050582286984 ASIN: B0002W1AE6 Theatrical Release Date: 2001 Release Date: October 4, 2004 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Editorial Reviews: Amazon.co.uk Review Yes, he's back, and he's still hungry. Ten years after iThe Silence of the Lambs,/i Dr. Hannibal "the Cannibal" Lecter (Anthony Hopkins, reprising his Oscar-winning role) is living the good life in Italy, studying art and sipping espresso. FBI agent Clarice Starling (Julianne Moore, replacing Jodie Foster), on the other hand, hasn't had it so good--an outsider from the start, she's now a quiet, moody loner who doesn't play bureaucratic games and suffers for it. A botched drug raid results in her demotion--and a request from Lecter's only living victim, Mason Verger (Gary Oldman, uncredited), for a little Q and A. Little does Clarice realize that the hideously deformed Verger--who, upon suggestion from Dr. Lecter, peeled off his own face--is using her as bait to lure Dr. Lecter out of hiding, quite certain he'll capture the good doctor. p Taking the basic plot contraptions from Thomas Harris's baroque novel, iHannibal/i is so stylistically different from its predecessor that it forces you to take it on its own terms. Director Ridley Scott gives the film a sleek, almost European look that lets you know that, unlike the first film (which was about the quintessentially American Clarice), this movie is all Hannibal. Does it work? Yes--but only up to a point. Scott adeptly sets up an atmosphere of foreboding, but it's all buildup for anticlimax, as Verger's plot for abducting Hannibal (and feeding him to man-eating wild boars) doesn't really deliver the requisite visceral thrills, and the much-ballyhooed climatic dinner sequence between Clarice, Dr. Lecter, and a third unlucky guest wobbles between parody and horror. Hopkins and Moore are both first-rate, but the film contrives to keep them as far apart as possible, when what made Silence so amazing was their interaction. When they do connect it's quite thrilling, but it's unfortunately too little too late. --iMark Englehart/i

Customer Reviews: Showing reviews 1-5 of 17 1 2 3 4 Next » A good film January 6, 2007 Mauvix (England) 3 out of 4 found this review helpful Hannibal is back. Hannible offers great suspence and horror from begining to end. With scenes horriffic enough to force a face of disgust on even the hardened horror fans, this film with have you on the edge of your seat with a pillow in your hand! br /Although I couldn't help but feel the story was (although based on a book) random and a bit sluggish the film is a deffinate eye opener with vast special effects...all of which are explained on the special features disk, in short enough to entertain and scare you silly. Ruth Rendell agrees with Hannibal: profiling is *** January 22, 2005 Jacques COULARDEAU (OLLIERGUES France) 5 out of 18 found this review helpful I was kind of disappointed by the film at first because it cuts off the second half of the book, the part I definitely preferred because it showed so well there is a real love affair going on between the criminal and the cop who is tracking him. Catching a serial killer is the story of a seduction : the seducing of the cop and the seducing of the killer by the other proponent in each case. But the film has qualities that are undeniable. It is a good thriller, though a little bit fast and consequently skimpy. The end is gross, even if the alternative ending is a lot better, because it keeps the main door open. The official ending closes all doors and locks them up so tight there is no escape from the horror this Hannibal inspires in Clarisse, respect, maybe or of course, but horror all the same. It explores a little bit the extreme culture of this man, his phenomenal way to impersonate practically anyone and charm practically any audience. He is a man who can be on the alert all the time and knows what his opponents are going to do next, even before they know themselves. It is funny how he is not at all disquieted by his being caught by his old high school or university gay offering to the God of death and style, because he knows this Mason has made a mistake : he has called him back by endangering Clarisse and she will know why she has been endangered and by whom, and she will react according to her instinct, she will come after him, Hannibal, because she cannot even doubt he is at stake and she was the bait, and she has to capture him alive, hence to go into the hornet's nest to get him free and then arrest him. That is not going to work exactly like that but the reducing of the rotten justice department offcial to a mumbling kid if not baboon is such a nice thing to see. A young promising man who cannot resist his fascination for easy money and endangers his own colleagues, even uses them as bait and nothing but trap-meat. That is what our system of containing evil instead of reforming it leads to. There is always someone who will take advantage of the situation. That is western corruption and we are experts at it. At the same time this film, for the second time (Red Dragon proved the contrary but The Silence of the Lambs went the opposite way), proves that the famous FBI profiling technique is just a gimmick in the technology of crime-fighting and nothing else. A real serial killer is intelligent enough to foresee what the police is going to do and thus to lead them along the way instead of being trapped by their profiling. A real serial killer is also able to check all computers and sites and know that someone has put their greasy fingers in some files that concern him. If he buys a certain perfume in some luxury boutique anywhere in the world, he wants it to be an indicator of his whereabout to get out of the police what he wants, because he knows there is a camera filming hom and a simple mirror will tell him he is being watched. And he always succeeds because teh police works serially too and very little creatively. He does not want to stay in hiding. He wants to come out and act, so he calculates the action he desires and wishes and he pulls all the strings. It is a shame that the film cuts off the second part of the book and makes it impossible for Hannibal to get out of the chase, but it is a good film and the book is quite different with a serial killer who finally wants to get out of it and tries, maybe succeeds, to do so. Watch and enjoy the film, then read the book and enjoy the difference. Then enjoy the second disk, the alternative or rejected scenes (probably not all of them), the making of, and many other elements. You'll learn a lot about filmmaking and that will give some depth to your pleasure. We are finally reaching the acme of visual art by being provided with the backstage scenes and the backroom discussions. The cinema with the DVD is becoming like the Bible with the fingerprints of Jesus and his full authentic biography certified by the Roman Emperor himself and at least two dozens of eye-witnesses testifying under oath in some Supreme Court of Historical Truth.pDr Jacques COULARDEAU Hannibal is free to roam the streets. September 3, 2006 Alan Burridge (Poole,, Dorset. United Kingdom) 0 out of 4 found this review helpful Sucker for these Hannibal movies as I am, it was good sense to allow him freedom after Red Dragon and Silence of the Lambs where he was in jail; enough was enough and it had to happen to keep the interest alive. And it works very well, but having said that, as mentioned in my Basic Instinct 2 review, one of my fellow reviewer's would not, perhaps, agree. That he bombed BI2 in that Catherine Tramell wasn't under police surveillance and hence got away with the murders, (or was it Dr Michael Glass?), seemed to irk him, yet here, we have much the same conundrum if you take that reviewer's complaints into consideration. Hannibal is one of America's ten most wanted, so how does he fly from Florence to America after Clarice Starling, then fly away again to end the movie? Were custom's and immigration lax, or just plainly asleep? Well, it's called poetic licence, and these things are allowed to drift from reality in a story/film otherwise it would just grind to a halt. Hannibal managed it somehow, much like Catherine Tramell/Dr Michael Glass in BI2, and it HAS TO happen. But this is excellent as the last (?) in the trilogy. Whether Thomas Harris is content to leave the story there, and if he didn't and wrote a fourth, would Anthony Hopkins come out from retirement (again) to play the part, we don't know? We can only guess and maybe hope? david james March 9, 2007 David James (uk) 0 out of 2 found this review helpful this film is a classic - i thought it was better than silence of the lambs as it focuses more along the lines of the relationship between hannibal and clarice, the film also is more about the doctor himself rather than the crime factor of the first. julianne moore is fantastic as clarice not that jodie foster wasn't but there seem to be more chemistry between her and lecter this time around - shes also stunning attractive, br / br / The best horror film ever made! April 20, 2009 Almond Huxley (North Wales) This film truly puts Silence of the Lambs in the shade. Anthony Hopkins is given so much more of the limelight, we see the full extent of his charm, intelligence, and incredible evil. He is accompanied by a brilliant cast. Gary Oldman is truly unforgettable as the repulsive Mason Verger, Ray Liotta is good as the foul Paul Krendler, and Frankie Faison's Barney is as likeable as ever. The scenes shot in Florence are stunning, as backed with beautiful, orchestral music. The plot may be all over the place, but it is practically unnoticeable. A great way to end the Lecter storyline( Although the somewhat lame Red Dragon was produced a year later), it is bursting to the seams with style, talent, and overall brilliance. A triumph. Showing reviews 1-5 of 17 1 2 3 4 Next »

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