Product Description

Fbi agent will graham has been called out of early retirement to catch a serial killer known by authorities as the tooth fairy. He asks for the help of his arch-nemesis dr. Hannibal the cannibal lecter.The only problem is that the tooth fairy is getting inside information from lector Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 05/23/2006 Starring: Anthony Hopkins Ralph Fiennes Run time: 124 minutes Rating: R Director: Brett Ratner

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #22296 in DVD
• Brand: Universal
• Released on: 2003-04-01
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Collector's Edition, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 124 minutes

Amazon.com
A lot could've gone wrong in Red Dragon, but the movie exceeds expectations. Replacing the acclaimed Manhunter as an "official" entry in the Hannibal Lecter trilogy, this topnotch thriller--the second adaptation of Thomas Harris's first Lecter novel--returns to the fertile soil of The Silence of the Lambs, serving as both prequel and heir to the legacy of Lecter as portrayed, with mischievous menace, by the great Anthony Hopkins. Familiar faces and locations reappear (along with Lambs screenwriter Ted Tally) as Lecter coaches FBI profiler Will Graham (Edward Norton) in tracking the horrific "Tooth Fairy" killer (Ralph Fiennes), whose transformative killing spree is inspired by a William Blake painting. By dutifully serving Harris's potent material, Tally and director Brett Ratner craft a suspenseful film worthy of its predecessors, bringing Hopkins full circle as one of the cinema's all-time greatest villains. With overtones of Psycho and a superb supporting cast, Red Dragon succeeds against considerable odds. --Jeff Shannon

From The New Yorker
A fourth helping of Hannibal Lecter, the third featuring Anthony Hopkins, and, with any luck, the last for a while. When a character becomes a franchise, there is only so much repetition that he-or she-can take before sliding into parody, and there is something distasteful in the thought that we are being urged to treat a homicidal maniac as a lovable rogue. The film presents a more youthful Lecter (although Hopkins cannot camouflage his years) who arrives in jail after spearing a detective called Will Graham (Edward Norton). From his cell, Lecter helps Graham to track the savage Tooth Fairy, whose real name is Dolarhyde (Ralph Fiennes), and whose identity Graham is strangely slow to unveil. In comparison with "The Silence of the Lambs," the new movie lacks mystery and dread, but the screenwriter, Ted Tally-who also scripted "Lambs" but wisely passed on "Hannibal"-lends it shape and thrust. Directed by Brett Ratner, somewhat anonymously. With Emily Watson as a startling and sexy blind woman, and Philip Seymour Hoffman as a journalist whom you can chew. -Anthony Lane
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker

Customer Reviews

Ice Castles II
My first problem is with the DVD cover. I have no clue why they have Sir Anthony Hopkins on there except if it's to make people think that this is a Hannibal Lector movie, you know, a gross-out cannibal movie. It's not that at all. But if you buy this or rent this thinking you're going to get a Silence of the Lambs Part 3, you're gonna be pissed off.

This is a magical love story between a blind girl and a guy with bad teeth. It's like that ice skating movie from the 70's, Ice Castles, but there's no skating and no nice love songs or anything.
The guy, Mr. D., was horribly abused as a child by his grandmother because he pee's the bed. Thus he has a really hard time opening his heart to a girl without killing her and her family first and placing bits of mirror in their eyes. But when he meets a blind girl, who can't see his teeth, he falls in love. He introduces her to lots of new experiences that don't involve the mutilation of her family members and their relationship unfolds in a very delightful way.
Ralph Fiennes is Super Hot as usual in this film, even with the teeth thing going on. He appears nude several times and has a wicked tattoo all over his back which he says took 8 hours to apply. Yummy!

Sterling on its own but...

I must preface my review of this movie. It's much better if you haven't recently watched The Silence and Hannibal. Onto the actual movie itself.
Anthony Hopkins is again excellent in the character that he is now world renowned as. Edward Norton does a nice job as the brooding FBI agent who reluctantly has to deal with Dr. Lector and Ralph Fiennes steals the show as the stricken serial killer, who we in time gain a modicum of sympathy for. However, the movie fails to match the first installment of the series for a pair of reasons.

1) The ending was extremely rushed and lacked any real suspense. It was as if two high school kids had read the first 3/4ths of the screenplay, then cooked up an ending before rushing off to a pizza date. 2) There was a lack of background concerning the films main characters, both Will Graham (Norton) and Francis Dolarhyde(Fiennes). The movie glosses over both their respective pasts with little more than one brief scene each.

So what was really good about the movie? The acting performances were superb and the movie seemed to have good flow, for the most part. In ranking the quality of the three films, Silence is number 1, this is 2 and Hannibal is 3.

Better than Hannibal.
Red Dragon starring Anthony Hopkins is a extremely suspenseful thriller. The ending is a bit disappointing and I notice other reviewers have stated that complaint as well. Edward Norton and Ralph Feines bring great energy to this film. Much better than expected, gotta see it!