Release Date
October 4, 2002
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Running Time
120 minutes
MPAA Rating
Rated R for violence, grisly images, language, some nudity and sexuality
Former FBI Agent Will Graham is forced to work with the man who almost killed him, Hannibal "the Cannibal" Lecter, to track another serial killer.... Full synopsis »
MOVIE REVIEW
Audiences waited ten years for the return of Hannibal Lecter and Clarice Starling, and so the hype for the third (or first) film was a little more muted than Hannibal. Late in 2000 and early in 2001, I was looking forward to Hannibal, but not nearly as much as some people because I had read the book, and frankly, the book sucked. With Red Dragon, the relative prequel to the Oscar-winning The Silence of the Lambs, I knew two things: It was going to be better than Hannibal, and a whole lot better than that 1986 piece-of-trash Manhunter. Full movie review »
