This film left me conflicted. I'll say no more than that. I refuse to provide spoilers. I thought it was a quite good origin story. The acting ebbed and flowed along with the script. I didn't feel the crescendos peaked enough. The story was fascinating. Thomas Harris wrote the screenplay and I haven't read the novel. Perhaps unlike Hannibal where, in my opinion, one of the most interesting and pivotal characters from the novel never made it to the screen, this is what the novel is. At any rate, I was drawn in and committed to the movie from the first 20 minutes and not disappointed.
Review of Hannibal Rising
