Despite all the effort, dollars spent, words written and time wasted there have only been two good Hannibal Lecter movies. This and Silence of the Lambs. Director Jonathan Demme brought the Thomas Harris book to life in Silence of the Lambs. And Michael Mann took a Harris book and turned it into a Michael Mann movie. Harris and Mann were so early to serial killers and profilers in popular fiction that they are basically inventing the formula here. The next four or five decades of television and film are filled with variations of cops hunting serial killers and serial killers hunting each other and diminishing returns of Hannibal Lecter sequels and prequels. I have never seen the show but the fact that there is a show is a particular kind of failure no matter how good the episodes might be. Anyway, this is visually stunning, cause of course it is, the synth score speaks to me and if the whole enterprise doesn’t quite hit a high note for me it’s just because, once again, Mann is forever…
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