| | | The Silence Has Been Broken.
Features: DVD, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 1.85:1, English, French, Spanish, Subtitled, Dubbed
"A rare sequel that rises above the original" (Joe Segal, Good Morning America), this absorbing thriller, staring Anthony Hopkins and Julianne Moore, picks up the trail of the world's most devious killer ten years after he disappeared.
"Hopkins' performance is mesmerizing -- you know an actor's got a part nailed down if you're fascinated by him purchasing hand cream." Catharine Tunnacliffe, Eye Weekly
"...a movie meant for the whole family--the Manson family." Elvis Mitchell, The New York Times
"...sleekly creepy..." Joe Leydon, San Francisco Examiner
"...better than the 1999 Harris novel...riveting suspense spiced with diabolical laughs..." Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
"...Anthony Hopkins makes Lecter fascinating every second he is on the screen." Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Editor's Note
After a decade in abeyance, the courtly cannibal, Hannibal Lecter, returns to the screen, again played by Anthony Hopkins, under the direction of Ridley Scott. When F.B.I. Agent Clarice Starling (Julianne Moore) is blamed for a botched drug bust, her boss Paul Krendler (Ray Liotta) makes a media circus of her humiliation, which catches the attention of Lecter. Now a hardened veteran, she begins receiving letters from the twisted genius, who remains obsessed with her. Yet she's not the only one interested in drawing out the psychopath, now lecturing on the Renaissance in Florence. Italian detective Pazzi (Giancarlo Giannini) hopes to impress his young wife by nailing the reward for his capture, and wealthy pedophile Mason Verger (Gary Oldman) is eager to take revenge against the cannibal for leaving him with a hideously deformed face. But they're no match for Hannibal's coyly satanic ubiquity, which bewilders his quickly narcotized foes before he administers a punishment sufficiently grotesque to suit his sense of amusement.The odious Krendler, in particular, learns to use his gray matter for, perhaps, the first time in his life. However, all is prologue to his fated rendezvous with Clarice. A banquet for the splatterati, reveling as it does in gore and dismemberment, the film features brilliant work by a stellar cast, and the kind of meticulous art direction and lushly magnificent photography that one has come to expect of one of Scott.
| Features | Audio: English DTS 5.1 Surround Sound, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound | | Audio: French, Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound | | Dubbed: French, Spanish | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, French, Spanish |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: TCFHE/MGM |
| Release Date: 6/5/2007 |
| Running Time: 131 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2001 | | Catalog ID: 107798 | | UPC: 00027616077974 | | Number of Discs: 2 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Widescreen 1.85:1 |
| Cast & Crew | Anthony Hopkins | | Gary Oldman | | Julianne Moore | | Ray Liotta | | Branko Lustig - Executive Producer | | David Crank - Art Director | | David Mamet - Screenplay | | Dino De Laurentiis - Producer | | Hans Zimmer - Original Music By | | John Mathieson - Cinematographer | | Norris Spencer - Production Designer | | Pietro Scalia - Editor | | Ridley Scott - Director | | Steven Zaillian - Screenplay | | Thomas Harris - Based On Novel By |
| Awards |
Nominee (2001) | | | MTV Award, Anthony Hopkins, Julianne Moore, Best Kiss | | | MTV Award, Anthony Hopkins, Best Villain | | | MTV Award, Hannibal, Best Movie |
| Memorable Quotes| "I should tell you...I've given serious thought...to eating your wife."----Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) to Pazzi (Giancarlo Giannini) | | "Hello, Clarice..."----Hannibal Lecter to Clarice Starling (Julianne Moore) |
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| | Professional Reviews | New York Times
"...Handsomely staged....[The] presentation is mournfully beautiful; rarely has a director used so many variations on midnight blue..." 02/09/2001 p.E12Entertainment Weekly
"...Gruesomely engrossing....Lecter remains a riveting figure of fear..." 02/16/2001 p.67-8 Variety
"...Tantalizing, engrossing....HANNIBAL imparts its own pleasures by painting a portrait of a man of ultimate civilized refinements whose dark side always threatens to lurch out violently..." 02/05/2001 p.37-40 ReelViews 7 of 10
"It has taken ten years for the sequel to The Silence of the Lambs to reach the screen (much of the delay due to the length of time it took novelist Thomas Harris to pen the book), and, sadly, it's not worth the wait. Hannibal isn't a terrible movie, but it is a disappointment, and more than a small step down from the level of its predecessor...Fans of The Silence of the Lambs will surely flock to see Hannibal during its first weekend of release, and far be it from me to dissuade them. The movie is not a hack job - it contains moments of genuine suspense, always looks good, and has the virtue of Anthony Hopkins returning to the greatest role of his incredibly diverse career. But there's a lot missing from the sequel, and many of those absent elements are the things that differentiated Silence from so many run-of-the-mill serial killer thrillers. What's left is at times depressingly ordinary and almost never memorable." - James Berardinelli
Reel.com 9 of 10
"Few movies have been as maniacally anticipated as Ridley Scott's Hannibal, the sequel to Jonathan Demme's atmospheric and explosive The Silence of the Lambs, which may have been the biggest movie surprise of the 1990s. Lambs swept the Academy Awards, and came close to legitimizing the suspense/horror film in the eyes of the public...It's unfair to say that Hannibal loses its way somewhere in the middle of the film. Truthfully, Hannibal keeps on a steady path the whole time, but it's simply a poorly paced and woefully suspense-less path. In Lambs, we had stakes -- the girl trapped in Buffalo Bill's well. Starling was working against the clock and the suspense was perfectly built and maintained throughout. In Hannibal, nothing is at stake except for Lecter's freedom, and that's something which, though Lecter is a great character, doesn't hold our interest nearly as well as its predecessor did." - Neal Block
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