Do yourself a favor.... skip this one and just watch Red Dragon.

Blind bought (no pun intended) the recently-released Blu-ray from Scream Factory and man, was I in for something. I had no prior knowledge that Hannibal Lecktor would make an appearance in this, but then it all unfolds into what would inspire the Hannibal TV series that I really admire.

This is not the best Hannibal Lecter movie but it is probably second. Brian Cox is pretty good but nowhere near Anthony Hopkins. The story is a little slow at times but interesting. The score is really good. There was some noticeably bad editing.

Dissapointed. No suspense. The dialogue wasn't clever or interesting. Seen better episodes of Columbo. It felt long. The music is awful. I think it's rated high by people trying to be purist or different. William Peterson's acting was sometimes bad and his monologues were very bad soap opera.. I'm thinking Sunset Beach.

- Peterson is an uninteresting and sometimes ridiculous protagonist - Music was completely out of place, and repetitive - Weird soap opera monologues - Terrible WTF ending + The villain was well cast and acted