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Hannibal Rising (2007)

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Reviews Counted:135

Fresh:21

Rotten:114

Average Rating:4/10

Consensus: Hannibal Rising reduces the horror icon to a collection of dime-store psychological traits.

Rated: R [See Full Rating] for strong grisly violent content and some language/sexual references

Runtime: 2 hrs 1 min

Genre: Horror/Suspense

Theatrical Release:Feb 9, 2007 Wide

Box Office: $27,503,677

Synopsis: Peter Webber (GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING) directs the latest installment about the monstrous cannibal Hannibal Lecter, revealing the facts of his childhood and the birth of his troubled mind. When... Peter Webber (GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING) directs the latest installment about the monstrous cannibal Hannibal Lecter, revealing the facts of his childhood and the birth of his troubled mind. When he is a young boy in Lithuania, Hannibal and his privileged family flee their castle as both the Nazi and Russian troops advance, going into hiding in a nearby humble cottage. But the war quickly finds them, and Hannibal witnesses horrible atrocities against his family, particularly from a local independent force of brutes led by the creepy Grutas (Rhys Ifans). Years after the war, teenage Hannibal (Gaspard Ulliel) leaves Lithuania and travels to France, where his uncle's wife, Lady Murasaki (Gong Li), takes him in and befriends him. A gifted medical student, Hannibal studies corpses and anatomy with extreme diligence, but dreams of tracking down and destroying those who harmed him and his family. Soon, he is acting on his impulses, hunting down the perpetrators from his youth and inflicting cruel punishment. Ulliel is chilling as the stone-faced Hannibal, clearly scarred by his tragic past and ever more determined to exact revenge. Li is luminous onscreen, and her mysterious character deserves more development. Ifans, perhaps best known for his turn as the goofy roommate in NOTTING HILL, is a menacing bully with a heart of stone. Dominic West appears as Inspector Popil, a French detective specializing in war crimes who suffered his own losses during the war, making him sympathetic towards Hannibal even though he is convinced of his guilt. Thomas Harris, the author of the Hannibal series that also includes THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, RED DRAGON, and HANNIBAL, serves as screenwriter for the first time in the Hannibal films. [More]

Starring: Gaspard Ulliel, Rhys Ifans, Gong Li, Richard Brake

Starring: Gaspard Ulliel, Rhys Ifans, Gong Li, Richard Brake, Kevin McKidd, Dominic West, Stephen Walters, Ivan Marevich

Director: Peter Webber

Director: Peter Webber
Screenwriter: Thomas Harris
Producer: Tarak Ben Ammar, Dino De Laurentiis, Martha De Laurentiis
Composer: Shigeru Umebayashi
Studio: MGM

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04/23/09
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Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review | comment Comment
08/07/08
Jonathan Kiefer
Jonathan Kiefer
Sacramento News & Review

Over twenty years after "Hannibal the Cannibal" made his film debut in Manhunter, the Dr. Lecter saga peters out with this misguided sequel.

Full Review Source: ESplatter | comment Comment
07/11/08
Steve Biodrowski
Steve Biodrowski
ESplatter

Un intento forzado por seguir explotando el personaje de Hannibal Lecter, vistosamente filmado y producido pero sin otra excusa argumental que intentar explicar lo inexplicable.

Full Review Source: Uruguay Total | comment Comment
04/21/08
Enrique Buchichio
Enrique Buchichio
Uruguay Total

o Webber mazi me ton aytokanibalisti Thomas Harris frontizoyn na makelepsoyn enan ap' toys pio eikonikoys haraktires tis mythologias toy tromoy toy aiona mas, kai na ton ypobibasoyn se enan akomi fonia mias opoiasdipote tyhaias slasher tainias, me proshim

Full Review Source: Movies for the Masses | comment Comment
10/14/07
Joseph Proimakis
Joseph Proimakis
Movies for the Masses

There are some pretty sadistic torture scenes for the gore hounds -- but ultimately this pointless prequel is about as thrilling as a wet towel.

Full Review Source: thelondonpaper | comment Comment
08/20/07
Gareth Shaw
Gareth Shaw
thelondonpaper

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Full Review Source: Big Picture Big Sound | comment Comment
07/14/07
Joe Lozito
Joe Lozito
Big Picture Big Sound

The material knows it is a prequel, and acknowledges such with tactics that consist of taking viewers from beginning to end in the most straightforward way possible...

Full Review Source: Cinemaphile.org | comment Comment
07/01/07
David Keyes
David Keyes
Cinemaphile.org

Hannibal Rising isn't much more than appetizer.

Full Review Source: IGN Movies | comment Comment
06/25/07
Scott Collura
Scott Collura
IGN Movies

A ponderous, uninspired portrait of a serial-killer-in-the-making with Webber missing every opportunity to build suspense and deliver chills.

Full Review Source: KPBS.org | comment Comment
04/21/07
Beth Accomando
Beth Accomando
KPBS.org

Uma ótima fotografia em serviço de um roteiro ridículo que se torna ainda mais patético em função do péssimo protagonista.

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04/17/07
Pablo Villaca
Pablo Villaca
Cinema em Cena

An origins movie that follows the serial killer's early years. As you might expect, those years didn't involve much time in a sandbox, unless of course Hannibal's spade was used as an instrument of death.

Full Review Source: Bangor Daily News (Maine) | comment Comment
03/05/07
Christopher Smith
Christopher Smith
Bangor Daily News (Maine)

Each follow-up to The Silence of the Lambs makes further sense of that 1991 film's top five Oscar sweep. Let's hope Rising is the last; it's certainly the least.

Full Review Source: rec.arts.movies.reviews | comment Comment
03/03/07
David N. Butterworth
David N. Butterworth
rec.arts.movies.reviews

The most terrifying movie of the new year.

Full Review Source: Maxim | comment Comment
03/02/07
Pete Hammond
Pete Hammond
Maxim

And now, the prequel Hannibal Rising, which answers several questions: Where did Hannibal come from? What made him what he is?... It does not, however, answer the better question: Who fricking cares?

Full Review Source: Cinematical | comment Comment
03/02/07
James Rocchi
James Rocchi
Cinematical

If Hannibal Rising catches fire, it may spark a new literary trend with Hollywood aspirations--i.e., when old monsters were kids

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
03/01/07
Doris Toumarkine
Doris Toumarkine
Film Journal International

Alas, in our current Oprah-fied, memoir-ridden, tell-all culture, even the great screen villains now suffer from dopey developmental traumas explaining away their misdeeds.

Full Review Source: Philadelphia Weekly | comment Comment
02/27/07
Sean Burns
Sean Burns
Philadelphia Weekly

"Memory is a knife," warns Murasaki, who lost family in Hiroshima. "It can hurt you." You can only hope the image of the doglike Hannibal, ripping at a victim's cheeks, fades soon.

Full Review Source: PopMatters | comment Comment
02/24/07
Cynthia Fuchs
Cynthia Fuchs
PopMatters

Gone is the nuance, the mystery, the fright factor, in its place a near-campy Dr. Phibes-like obsession with revenge.

Full Review Source: Metro Weekly (Washington, DC) | comment Comment
02/23/07
Randy Shulman
Randy Shulman
Metro Weekly (Washington, DC)

Director Peter Webber clearly wants Hannibal Rising to be a class production. Unfortunately, he makes the whole affair too artsy and staid for its own good, which results in a plodding pace that induces more eyelid drooping than tension.

Full Review Source: Q Network Film Desk | comment Comment
02/18/07
James Kendrick
James Kendrick
Q Network Film Desk
 
 
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