| | | The silence has been broken.
Features: DVD, Pan and Scan (TV Format), English, French, Spanish, Subtitled, Original, Trailers
The silence has been broken... "Thrilling" (Time), "absorbing" (The Wall Street Journal) and "entertaining" (Newsday), this follow-up to The Silence Of The Lambs is an "audience success" (US Weekly)! Anthony Hopkins is "perverse perfection" (Rolling Stone) in his return to the role of Dr. Hannibal Lechter, the sophisticated killer who comes out of hiding to draw FBI agent Clarice Starling (Julianne Moore) into a high-stakes battle that will test her strength, cunning...and loyalty. Drenched in terror, suspense and shocking visual effects,. Hannibal is "as compelling a film as you will ever see" (Joel Siegel, Good Morning America)!
"...a movie meant for the whole family--the Manson family." Elvis Mitchell, The New York Times
"...sleekly creepy..." Joe Leydon, San Francisco Examiner
"...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 Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound; French, Spanish Dolby Digital Mono | | Interactive Menus | | Original Theatrical Trailer | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, French, Spanish |
| Entertainment Reviews
 | Hannibal - DVD Review By: James Brundage - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 9/4/2009 5:42 PM | |
10 years ago to this day, Hannibal Lecter burned himself into our memory, our catchphrases, and our popular culture, and now, he sits at the head of the table once again, packing movie theatres, dominating dinner conversations, and prompting people to try fava beans. With the release of Hannibal, one of the most anticipated films in the past years, we’re forced to reassess a budding franchise -- much like we did with Star Wars: Episode I. Hannibal is not that refined, deeply charming, and psychological suspenseful yarn we met behind bars in Silence of the Lambs' Baltimore mental ward, three steps up from Bedlam....read the full review |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: MGM |
| Release Date: 8/6/2009 |
| Running Time: 131 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2001 | | Catalog ID: 111267 | | UPC: 00027616909077 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, French Dubbed, Spanish Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Widescreen 1.85:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
MTV Award (2001) | | | Anthony Hopkins, Julianne Moore, Nominee, Best Kiss | | | Anthony Hopkins, Nominee, Best Villain |
| 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 Rolling Stone 8 of 10
...It's better than the 1999 Harris novel... It's not better than The Silence of the Lambs... - Peter Travers
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