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  Review by josh lewis ★★ 8

  a case study in what a director does: put on manhunter (1986), same material, same cinematographer, and observe what that film does with space, sound, architecture and light. how dynamic the visual style is and how much subjective interiority and perversity it mines out of wordless atmosphere. then throw on this film. by all “objective” measures probably a perfectly ok, expensive middlebrow procedural with an overqualified cast. but far more frustrating to me than a “bad” movie because we get to witness the same scenes (frequently beat-for-beat, line-for-line) with the knowledge that they can be incredibly expressive and now they are among the flattest, dullest, most literal-minded and unimaginative the genre has ever given us. i hesitate to even use the word imitation when describing how generic and pointless of a remake this is because it doesn’t even appear to be trying. i guess that’s brett ratner auteurism.

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  Review by Matt Singer ★★½ 4

  Brett Ratner's Gus Van Sant's PSYCHO.

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  Review by 🎃🔥Mr. Like🔥🎃 ★★★½ 12

  Rotten Tomatoes: 68%
  Metacritic Metascore: 60
  IMDB: 7.2

  76/100

  Release Date: 04 October 2002
  Distributor: universal pictures 
  Budget: $78M
  Worldwide Gross: $209.1M
  Total Film Awards: 4

  Hannibal Lecter: "Remarkable boy. I do admire your courage. I think I'll eat your heart."

  SYNOPSIS: A retired FBI agent with psychological gifts is assigned to help track down "The Tooth Fairy", a mysterious serial killer. Aiding him is imprisoned forensic psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter.

  Red Dragon takes place just before the events of The Silence of the Lambs. In this movie, a deranged serial killer is killing entire families every month on the night of the full moon. Jack Crawford of the FBI calls in retired agent Will Graham to help…

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  Review by Laura Raud ★★★★½ 15

  Guys, why is everyone hating on this? You have Edward Norton, Ralph Fiennes, PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN and let's not forget Anthony Hopkins all in one movie - it's like a dream-come-true!

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  Review by lex 🌙 ★★★★ 2

  edward norton hot

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  Review by 𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐚𝐧𝐚 ★★★½

  Outro filme baseado no livro Dragão Vermelho, e esse aqui conseguiu fazer um trabalho melhor do que o original. As investigações são melhores, assim como as atuações. Edward Norton foi uma boa escolha pra interpretar Will Graham, assim como Ralph Fiennes foi uma boa escolha pra interpretar o vilão. Anthony Hopkins continua incrível como sempre, realmente nasceu pra interpretar o Hannibal Lecter. Uma das coisas que gosto bastante no personagem do Will é que ele se coloca no lugar do assassino, dando a entender o que o assassino faria e tudo mais, aqui eles explicam isso, mas não foi muito bem abordada, ficou meio besta. Gostei desse filme, ele tem um ritmo melhor e mais dinâmico.

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  Review by Naughty aka Juli Norwood ★★★½ 4

  Manhunter and Red Dragon are equally good for different reasons and are both deserving of your time!

  Very much enjoyed Philip Seymour Hoffman's performance as the loathsome Freddy Lounds!

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  Review by Mads Ej ★★★½ 3

  Hannibal movies ranked: boxd.it/azHLg

  This was a good prequel to “The Silence of the Lambs” but the similarities in the story almost made it feel like a remake. 
  The story was good and interesting and just like in the first movie Hannibal wasn’t the main villain, but instead a psychopath, who helped with solving the case, while also amusing himself with some teasing mind games. 
  Anthony Hopkins was once again great and menacing as Hannibal and the rest of the cast did a good job too. 
  The movie focused a lot on the villain and gave him some backstory, which gave a good characterization of him, but much of it also felt a little unnecessary and could drag a bit. …

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  Review by CinemaCl🎃wn ★★½ 11

  For a film featuring a strong list of character actors in Anthony Hopkins, Edward Norton, Ralph Fiennes, Harvey Keitel, Emily Watson & Philip Seymour Hoffman, one would usually expect something that's no less than a delight, and that expectation rises even more when the source material is such a popular novel. The only way it could fail is if the directorial duties are assigned to someone like Brett Ratner, and that's exactly what happens here.

  Based on Thomas Harris' novel of the same name and serving as a prequel to The Silence of the Lambs, the story of Red Dragon follows Will Graham, a former FBI agent & gifted psychologist who is coerced out of early retirement by Jack Crawford to assist…

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  Review by matt lynch ★★½ 4

  almost everything remotely worthwhile in this is redundant, the rest not so much bad as it is thuddingly literal. there was no way this wasn't going to seem miscalculated in the face of a masterpiece like MANHUNTER, but Ratner doesn't do himself any favors with his diabolically expository wholesale restaging of Mann's film with a name-brand cast, and what's worse he occasionally pulls out Demme's confessional straight-into-camera close-ups for no other reason than to sew this up visually with THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS. only Fiennes really rescues this, bringing a frenzied physical menace to Dolarhyde where Tom Noonan's was all imposing, quiet control. it's a contrast not unlike the Hopkins/Brian Cox interpretations of Lecter/Lektor, although here Hopkins is just full-on hamming it, the most stupidly obvious choice in a film full of stupid obvious choices.

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  Review by ben mcdonald ★★ 5

  All the plot beats of Harris' novel are there, but none of the spirit of Silence of the Lambs.

  I'm honestly shocked how this film's horrendously dull screenplay squanders each and every one of its poor, dedicated cast members.

  Edward Norton is miscast. Ralph Fiennes is miscast. Philip Seymour Hoffman's lines are so legitimately stupid that I actually laughed out loud. Anthony Hopkins tries his best- I'll give him that- but ultimately doing so spins his character into a corny caricature of the Hannibal in Silence. Harvey Keitel is probably the only one who comes across as genuine.

  And I **hate** how the film ends minutes before Silence, as if Ratner couldn't rub it in our face even further that we're watching a hackneyed version of a much better movie.

  I knew this wasn't going to be as good as Demme's film, but yikes.

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  Review by 20oldboy03 ★★★½ 21

  Vorneweg will gesagt sein, ist „Roter Drache“ ein bestens unterhaltender Thriller der ganz klar im Fahrwasser von „Das Schweigen der Lämmer“ schwimmt und ebenso die Stärke im Cast wie der düsteren Atmosphäre zieht.

  Wie eben das unüberwindliche „Das Schweigen der Lämmer“, nimmt der chronologisch als zweiten Teil dastehende „Roter Drache“ abermals einen Antagonisten aus der „zweiten Reihe“, um eben Dr. Hannibal Lector genau die Screentime zu überlassen, die ihm die Plattform bietet permanent präsent zu sein und dennoch der Figur genügend Mystik zu lassen, die das Unbegreifbare an ihm festigt. Dennoch verschenkt Regisseur Brett Ratner Ralph Fiennes als Francis Dolarhyde alias die Zahnfee, nicht zu Gunsten eines Anthony Hopkins in wohl seiner bekanntesten Rolle, was ebenso an Fiennes selber liegen…