Red Dragon (2002)

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" 9 confirmed hungry hungry Hannibal dinners. 6 male 3 female Running time: 125 mins Kills per average: 13.89 mins Number of kills: 9 Gourmet meal: Freddy’s dead. And toasty! Left over: Flute player, who dies off screen. Survivors: Agent Will Graham, Dr. Hannibal Graham, Reba McClane, Lloyd Bowman, Fredrick Chilton, Barney Matthews, Agent Jack Crawford, Josh Graham, and Molly Graham "

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"Rated: R Why it’s rated: More Graphic Hannibal Lector, violence, Adult situations, profanity and nudity."

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Red Dragon

“The hard truth is this: Brett Ratner’s a “for hire” director without any vision of his own. His background is in music videos and this has left him with the distinct inability to let things breathe or rest. A suspenseful story wilts under his eye because of this, and Red Dragon plays like warmed-over The Silence of the Lambs and/or Manhunter, depending on any given scene.   You know this story, the subject of the last chunk of episodes in Hannibal’s final season, a prior and better film adaptation, and divulged as verbal exposition for Claire in Lambs, Red Dragon doesn’t do anything special with the material. It’s two hours and never stops or ponders anything for very long. It feels like a longer, better film that’s been trimmed down and stripped bare for television syndi” read more