Wasn't Hannibal a vicious serial killer? How did he turn into a revenge seeking anti-hero for this film? Aside from some really bad lines of dialog, and cuts that left you wondering what happened, turning Hannibal into a sympathetic character kills the film. A Hannibal Lector movie is the type of movie where you want to root for the bad guy because he is bad. You expect him to do nasty things to people who maybe really don't deserve to have nasty things done to them. Unfortunately his victims are much worse than he is, so he's more of an anti-hero than the brilliantly psychotic serial killer that you know and love.
Review of Hannibal Rising
Hannibal Rising
(2007)
Silly plot, corny lines, bad editing cuts, and Hannibal the anti-hero?!
10 November 2007