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Manhunter (1986)
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Though it will always be remembered as the movie featuring the "other" Hannibal Lecter, Michael Mann's 1986 thriller Manhunter is nearly as good as The Silence of the Lambs, and in some respects it's arguably even better. Based on Thomas Harris's novel Red Dragon, which introduced the world to the nefarious killer Hannibal "the Cannibal" Lecter, the film stars William Petersen (giving a suitably brooding performance) as ex-FBI agent Will Graham, who is coaxed out of semiretirement to track down a serial killer who has thwarted the authorities at every turn. Graham's approach to the case is a perilous one. First he...
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| Manhunter Movie Review by Jarrod (7/6/2009) |
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'Manhunter' was the original adaptation of Thomas Harris's novel Red Dragon, which introduced us to the diabolical Hannibal Lecter, or Lecktor, as his last name is spelled here. We do not learn much about Hannibal, except that he was once a renowned forensic psychiatrist, whom the FBI consulted on their more perplexing...
(complete Manhunter review by Jarrod)
Not having read "Red Dragon," I am not biased in my review. As I have always said, a book is a book, and a movie is a movie, and there should not be any comparison in a review.
This was an interesting movie in many respects. It was a good thriller; like an episode of "Law and Order" and "CSI" together. I don't really like...
(complete Manhunter review by Movie Addict)
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