Hannibal Rising Movie Review Message Board and Comments

I saw this film a while ago and was very excited by the trailer.I love all the lector films but most admit this didn't live up to the others.The story was interesting to go back to the background of Hannibal Lector and how he became the brutal serial killer.The young actor Gaspard Ulliel had a difficult task of matching the standard to a legend like Anthony Hopkins but to be fair to Gaspard he tried and performed well.Although you can understand more about Hannibal Lector and why he became who he had later become and almost though that part of the story needs to be told to make more sense of the madman.Still the young Hannibal is interesting to watch and will give you some suprises.Although I do regret despite its efforts Hannibal Rising lacked the chills and pace of the others can be slow moving in parts but if you like a revenge thriller movie or just want to piece the jigsaw of the past of Hannibal Lector its worth a look.Although I do feel more could have been done with this movie and maybe could have merged it more with red dragon would have given it more of a boost it needed!Unless another lector movie is on the cards to do this?Then this would be the warm up then!