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7.9 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 8 Ratings

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  1. PatC.
    Jan 5, 2004
    8
    Noonan plays a truly spiritually frightening dude. The Hannibal films that followed pay due homage to director Michael Mann. Never one to shy away from the dark side of human nature, he once again establishes that evil cannot be confronted until it is understood. That understanding flows from a world that is not necessarily twisted, but always is matter-of-fact. Unfortunately, this film introduced the My-family's-in-peril-I-must-become-Executioner device now never out of stock on Hollywood's formula shelf. … Expand
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  2. RodL.
    Apr 7, 2003
    10
    By far the best of the Hannibal Lechter movies, due in no small part to Brian Cox, who played the killer not as a slithering over-the-top caricature, but as a very devious, very deceptive genius. William Petersen's profiler is a worthy opponent for the psychopath, not begging for clues (a la Edward Norton) but using Lechter as a way into his own dark recesses. A stylish thriller not to be missed.… Expand
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  3. YoonC.
    Sep 22, 2003
    6
    Effective but hollow, slick and soulless. Michael Mann as director is too enamoured of what might be called the Armani decorum and yuppie office building lighting. A minimalist exercise, a glasswork than a mirror reflecting human motivations. William Peterson does a creditable job but this pales in comparison to the other Peterson film of the same period, Friedkin's masterpiece To Live and Die in LA. … Expand
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  4. AndrewM.
    Dec 13, 2003
    9
    No hamming it up by any of the actors, they do whats asked of them by the script and folllow it. the B movie dialogesque overtones give more credibilty then trite, smoothly stiched dialogue found in recent thrillers. Casting was excellent, it shows a fluid process flow of law enforcement that probably doesnt exist but should be expected.
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Metascore
78 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 10 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 10
  3. Negative: 1 out of 10
  1. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Steve Winn
    25
    Without a compelling - and convincingly compelled - character at its center, the details in this film lack an agonizing drop-by-drop tension. The various pieces fall apart like the shattered mirrors that figure in the crimes. [15 Aug 1986]
  2. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Staff (Non Credited)
    80
    Petersen is superb as the obsessive investigator who risks madness each time he takes on a case, and Tom Noonan is absolutely chilling as the psycho killer.
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  3. Variety
    Reviewed by: Staff (Not Credited)
    70
    An unpleasantly gripping thriller... Interesting Hitchcockian guilt transference territory and Mann's grip on his material is tight and sure. Director is at all times preoccupied by visual chic.
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