Hannibal For those interested in seeing Hannibal, you’ll find greater enjoyment of the movie if you avoid comparing it to Silence of the Lambs, its smashing predecessor. Hannibal has a different style, altered tone, and a sweeping change in story emphasis. In short, it’s bigger, simpler, and a bit more predictable. That being said, director Ridley Scott (in his Gladiator follow-up) brings on an effective, sometimes faulty, marginally successful thriller. Just don’t …showed first 75 words of 629 total…

…showed last 75 words of 629 total…those other films, but here it’s more grotesque and even sickening. Remember the grisly images of Silence of the Lambs? You can’t because there weren’t any. So, as you can tell, comparing the two movies only hurts the latter. Which is unfair, because it’s certainly ample entertainment. There’s just no need to put your thinking caps on, because Hannibal aims less for the pop psychology, and more for the pop.