From the last chronological film of the Hannibal saga there is one certainty: The Silence of the Lambs and Red Dragon should be the only cinematographic pieces in the story of Dr. Lecter.
This film doesn't achieve the unsettling and constant suspense that one might expect. It's a flat film, almost boring, with ridiculous situations. It's well executed, many technical details are correct and decent, but none of that matters if the entire product fails to interest. The last two great situations do not save a work already condemned from the beginning, with confirmed prejudices about the need for a sequel. Hopkins is not up to his great performance that earned him the Oscar and Moore is not convincing either.
It sticks around like an average movie, to put in the background of a regularly busy afternoon.
This film doesn't achieve the unsettling and constant suspense that one might expect. It's a flat film, almost boring, with ridiculous situations. It's well executed, many technical details are correct and decent, but none of that matters if the entire product fails to interest. The last two great situations do not save a work already condemned from the beginning, with confirmed prejudices about the need for a sequel. Hopkins is not up to his great performance that earned him the Oscar and Moore is not convincing either.
It sticks around like an average movie, to put in the background of a regularly busy afternoon.