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Especially the fact that this time there is no battle of wits, like there was in the original or in the upcoming Red Dragon. What doesn't work so well, unfortunately, is the story. Very good role for him and he absolutely delivers. Plus, as a compensation gift, we get Gary Oldman as Mason Verger, the only one of Lecter's victims who lived through his ordeals. It's a shame they couldn't get Jodie Foster to reprise her role as well, but Julianne Moore is an okay substitute as a leaner and meaner Clarice.
Lecter is still easily the best thing about these films, and Hopkins's suave menace has not gone down in the slightest. They got Anthony Hopkins to reprise his role, which automatically makes the film worth checking out, and it is very interesting to see him on the loose, mixing with the high society, in his natural element so to speak. Hannibal is a serviceable sequel in the Hannibal Lecter trilogy. Likewise Clarice Starling, played this time by Julianne Moore, has moved on, but now she has been disgraced by a drug bust gone wrong and thus it is time for these two old enemies to meet once more. Hannibal Lecter has been laying low, hiding from the long arms of the FBI and those that he has hurt in the past. Some years have passed since the events of The Silence of the Lambs and Dr.
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