Hannibal

The stupid mask.. What to do when running out of ideas for another sequel of a successful franchise? Do the prequel! (Brilliant*)

One of the most successful examples was Godfather II, which earned a second Oscar for Coppola. The worst case scenario was Star Wars - instead of 1, 3 state-of-the-art mindless prequels were made to level Lucas' landmark epic almost 30 years ago.

Manhunter was the beginning of the series. It was pretty much a network production, loosely paced, and was not too popular. Brain Cox set the tune of Dr. Lector in this first appearance. Anthony Hopkins played Brain Cox in silence of the lambs and won the world. (Brain Cox is always a good actor!)

Hannibal Rising has a poor story. Somehow, it doesn't have much ground to make sense out of the creation of a sociopath. Maybe it does, but the plot is plain stupid and predictable.

Young Hannibal acted like he had a history of 3 movies behind him and had to pick up every little move Sir Hopkins did to reinforce the connections. As if this has anything to do with good acting or is of any necessary to make this a better prequel/ movie.

Revenge is the word, and it makes justification to any silly, stupid, crazy, inhuman actions. An eye for an eye, in this movie’s prospective, to get even, one must pay back. The spirit is quite pro-anti-terrorist war – as far as you have something behind you, you can go all the way! “Those bastards are no human, they don’t have parents and families and deserve to be cleaned off by the righteous YOU.” Thanks for the educating lesson.

The dialogues are like the theme of Batman. Fearing the audience might doze off anytime and forget which movie they were watching - the characters had to continuously repeat "Hannibal" throughout the show. In most cases, Ms. Gong Li. How annoying!

It looks, smells, sounds like a stinky movie, and more than that, it’s rotten bad. (The cine-photography is at times good)
Hannibal rising! Soooo horrible, you should run away not walk!