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Audience Rating: Suitable for 18 years and overBinding: DVD EAN: 5060116721997 Format: PAL Label: Momentum Pictures Home Ent Languages: Manufacturer: Momentum Pictures Home Ent Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Momentum Pictures Home Ent Region Code: 2 Release Date: June 25, 2007 Running Time: 125 minutes Studio: Momentum Pictures Home Ent Related Items:
Editorial Review: Amazon.co.uk Review: Though Hannibal Rising's Lecter (Gaspard Ulliel) is a pussycat compared to Anthony Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs, this sequel's story of revenge is grizzly enough to satisfy lovers of Thomas Harris's epic tale. After young Hannibal (Aaron Thomas) is forced to watch his little sister, Mischa (Helena Lia Tachovska), devoured by starving soldiers in his homeland Lithuania, Hannibal vows to avenge his sister's death by slaying those who committed not only war crimes against the Lecters, but also against other families during WW II. In detailing Hannibal's revenge plan, the film investigates the psychological implications of witnessing cannibalism to justify Hannibal's insatiable appetite for human flesh. The most interesting aspect of Hannibal Rising--its analytical connections drawn between Hannibal's childhood traumas and his murderous adult obsessions--is also the film's weak point. The links oversimplify Lecter's complex character. For example, though titillating to see flashbacks of Lecter's sister hacked up and boiled while Lecter visits a Parisian meat market, the reference is too obvious. One learns why he excels in his medical school classes dissecting cadavers, and we're given explicit explanation for why he slices off and eats his victims' cheeks. The story only complicates when Hannibal interacts with his sexy Aunt, Lady Murasaki (Gong Li). When Murasaki educates him in the art of beheading, the viewer sees Hannibal's sword fetish as a manifestation of physical lust. --Trinie Dalton Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A FILM THAT NEVER SHOULD HAVE BEEN MADEHollywood is running out of ideas. Sequels, remakes and prequels, anything to cash in on a good original and take your money again and again. HANNIBAL RISING is absolute garbage. There's no Anthony Hopkins to redeem this crap either. Although an interesting idea to show his origin, it is totally unnecessary and a complete waist of time and money. Rating:  - I think some of you were watching a different film.Honestly, I don't know what some of these reviews are on about. Ever since I saw this it has been my favourite movie, ever. I have to admit that all other Hannibal films that I watched seemed.. dull, at the risk of being attacked by hardcore fans. This one, however, is brilliant. Gaspard Ulliel has, since watching this, become my favourite actor. He can convey anything with one glance, and does the best evil smirks that I have ever seen. Not only that, he is also insanely sexy. Watch it, now. Rating:  - Hannibal falling"Hannibal Rising" is a decent book, the film has reasonable cast and the whole shebang has obviously had quite a few quid thrown at it...so why doesn't it work? Well firstly, if anything, the movie is too faithful to Harris' text (it's practically page by page and exactly as I had imagined it)...which in itself shouldn't be a bad thing, but unfortunately as a result many of the scenes feel rushed and clunky. If you are going to do something this faithful it probably needs to be 180 rather than 105 minutes. As it is there's just too much going on to appreciate the production values. I wonder if this same criticism - lack of time - can be levelled at the entire production, because the cast don't seem comfortable with their dialogue. There are some ok actors on show here but they deliver lines with all the passion of Hayden Christensen in a Star Wars prequel. It's a pity because there's a good movie - "Hannibal" level anyway- struggling to get out. Rating: - Embarrassingly Awful FilmI had reasonably high expectations of this film. The spiel made it sound interesting. And the first half hour or so of the film was gripping and powerful. The two young children who played Mischa and Hannibal did a good job. But once Hannibal enters his teens and is played by Gaspard Ulliel, the film sinks into farce. Firstly, the actor Gaspard is unbelievably unappealing. A hideously ugly, clueless and talentless young actor who spends much of the film with an inexplicable smirk on his unpleasant face. The biggest flaw of the film is the fact it's impossible to relate to Gaspard or have any sympathy for him at all. You find yourself actually wishing the Russian soldiers would kill him, rather than vice versa. The rest of the actors do a good job but why on earth couldn't they have found a better lead than Gaspard? He turns the entire film into a camp joke. And what on earth is that ridiculous expression on his face each time he kills? Rating: - Crime always has rootsThe book was perfect, the film is even more perfect than perfect. It is exactly what we could have dreamed of. The story is the absolute logical explanation of the previous volumes about Hannibal Lecter and we cannot think of one detail in these earlier volumes that is not the direct consequence of what happens in this later volume that tells the infancy, teenage and youth of Hannibal Lecter. What makes it so fascinatingly believable is that this period of his life is situated in Lithuania during the war and in the Soviet union and in France after the war. The political elements, allusions or direct references are correct even if at times slightly simplified, for instance the butcher, the first victim of Hannibal Lecter's on the French territory, who was a collaborator during the war and took part in the sending of some Jews to deportation could go on with his profession in spite of the hatred he had accumulated among people because as a butcher he must have taken part in a lot of black market operations and most post war higher ups or councilors and representatives in his zone must have used his services in a way or another during the war, to sell the meat they produced on their farms or to buy the meat they could not have with the food coupons. But that lack of precision is already in the book. But a little bit of research on such a point, and others, would have made the film even more believable. The man Hannibal Lecter, and his psychology are really clarified. He was traumatized by what he went through and he never managed to get out of it, to forget it, to forgive the criminals, etc. But is a man that resilient to be able to forgive and forget seeing his own younger sister being cooked in her own copper bathtub and then eaten by a bunch of wild human beasts? I guess we would like to think so. But what we are sure of is that no matter how much you forget something, that thing remains in your mind and can manipulate you any time anywhere unconsciously. All people who suffer such traumas do not become criminals but most of them have some blank moments and their general attitude is either one of distantiation or one of extreme orthodoxy along some ethical or ideological line. For example we have not really thought of the impact of the torturing and execution of the early Christians on the very corpus of their beliefs and principles. How can some persecuted group defend the principle of loving their enemies who are putting them to death in atrocious ways everyday? That is what this film is all about and it shows how relentless the victim of such violence can become, and that is not vengeance. It is justice in the eye of plain humanity, in the eye of what they have suffered, in the eye of God even. But the good question remains to know where the police, or more generally the forces that are supposed to defend law, order, justice, freedom and many other principles, were at the time of the crimes. No one can answer even when one war criminal of that type is caught up like Papon in France who was tried in the late 1990s for crimes against humanity he committed in Bordeaux in 1944 after a complete career in the top administration or the government of the country. He was the police and the direct representative of the state in Bordeaux hence law and order in 1944. The problem we have to solve is then what do we do for these people who suffered such horrible crimes after the end of the period concerned. What do we do with the victims of the war in Iraq, both American GIs who come back completely disturbed and Iraqis who are going to be haunted by what they suffered for decades. There is no easy answer to that question. Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines  Try searching the Internet for "Hannibal Rising [2007]" or Ebay for "Hannibal Rising [2007]". You might also be interested in the following great products:
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