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| Year: | 2007 |
| Country of origin: | UK / Czech Republic / France / Italy |
| Director: | Peter Webber |
| Genre: | Serial killer thriller |
| Starring: | Gaspard Ulliel |
| Rating: | 2/5 |
| IMDB link: | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367959/ |
| Tagline: | It Started With Revenge |
| Favourite line: | None worth mentioning |
Cashing in on the legacy that is Hannibal Lecter, this sees relative unknown Gaspard Ulliel as the eponymous flesh eater in his formative years.
In the years shortly after the second world war, Hannibal is an orphan, his parents having been brutally butchered by the Nazi's. He's living with his aunt when, in an act of savagery, his beloved sister is slain. Over time, Hannibal develops both the means and motivation to exact revenge upon the sister killers.
A reasonably effective thriller is here shackled by the need to crowbar in Lecter references. There's no real reason for this to have any connection with the Hannibal Lecter backstory, and it genuinely feels as if this was a plot for a different story and then, to maximise profits, Thomas Harris (author of the novels the films are based on, for the three people out there that don't know) decided to wedge him into the plot.
Never engaging the viewer, this is pretentious, overly long and utterly unnecessary.
For Hannibal enthusiasts only.
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