Directed by: Brett Ratner
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Edward Norton, Ralph Fiennes
This blog should have been up ages ago but things got on top of me and it got delayed. I'm sure no one really cares anyway.
So, Red Dragon is one of the Hannibal Lecter films which hardly has any Hannibal in it at all. It's about a guy going around killing people for what seems like fun to him. He shoots the family and inserts shards of mirror into their eye sockets so that when he rapes the wife/mom, it looks like he has an audience. Sick isn't really the word.
This guy, Francis Dolarhyde played by Ralph Fiennes, (nicknamed the tooth fairy) has a split personality and likes to be called the Red Dragon as he has a fascination with the Red Dragon painting and has a large tattoo going down his back.
It's up to retired FBI agent Will Graham (Norton) to track down this guy. But Graham needs help, so he turns to Hannibal Lecter who, only a few months previously, had tried to kill and eat him.
The blood and gore in this film look extremely real. So real, in fact, that it's sickening. It's hard to look at the screen sometimes when you see a bleeding women with mirror in her eyes looking at you.
Ralph Fiennes (who played Voldemort in Harry Potter and Victor Quartermaine in Wallace and Gromit) does an outstanding job playing this psycho-freak. In fact, all the actors are excellent, it's a shame that there wasn't enough acting for Anthony Hopkins to do.
It's a great film, but only watch it if you can stomach blood and gore.
85%
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Edward Norton, Ralph Fiennes
This blog should have been up ages ago but things got on top of me and it got delayed. I'm sure no one really cares anyway.
So, Red Dragon is one of the Hannibal Lecter films which hardly has any Hannibal in it at all. It's about a guy going around killing people for what seems like fun to him. He shoots the family and inserts shards of mirror into their eye sockets so that when he rapes the wife/mom, it looks like he has an audience. Sick isn't really the word.
This guy, Francis Dolarhyde played by Ralph Fiennes, (nicknamed the tooth fairy) has a split personality and likes to be called the Red Dragon as he has a fascination with the Red Dragon painting and has a large tattoo going down his back.
It's up to retired FBI agent Will Graham (Norton) to track down this guy. But Graham needs help, so he turns to Hannibal Lecter who, only a few months previously, had tried to kill and eat him.
The blood and gore in this film look extremely real. So real, in fact, that it's sickening. It's hard to look at the screen sometimes when you see a bleeding women with mirror in her eyes looking at you.
Ralph Fiennes (who played Voldemort in Harry Potter and Victor Quartermaine in Wallace and Gromit) does an outstanding job playing this psycho-freak. In fact, all the actors are excellent, it's a shame that there wasn't enough acting for Anthony Hopkins to do.
It's a great film, but only watch it if you can stomach blood and gore.
85%
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