Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Horst in Translation ([email protected]) "Manhunter" is an American crime thriller from 1986, so this one had its 30th anniversary last year. The director is Oscar nominee Michael Mann and he is also the one who adapted Thomas Harris' "Red Dragon" for the screen here. And if you hear that title, you maybe already realize that this film takes place in the universe of Hannibal Lecter. Actually, it is the very first film about this subject, even if not too many remember it today anymore. This certainly also has to do with all the awards and critics recognition for "Silence of the Lambs" that came out 5 years later roughly. But this one here also features a solid cast like William Petersen as the lead actor who is very much known for CSI today or Joan Allen, who has several Oscar nominations or Stephen Lang from "Avatar" or the late Dennis Farina and Americans will perhaps recognize some other names too. This is a relatively long movie at slightly under two hours and this is also one of the main problems here because I felt that it dragged quite a bit, especially in the second half. The film frequently looks like a typical one-man bad-ass routine movie from the 1980s filled with macho moments and stuff like that. But Petersen may not have been the right choice for that. He certainly is no Charles Bronson and his screaming into the open as if his enemy was there also felt a little pathetic at times.Story-wise, the film also did not do too much I guess. The Lecter moments with the criminal mastermind in his cell were probably still among the better, but the general crime story did not work out too well I must say. This is a bit disappointing as the main antagonist had solid moments when he was getting screen time. But he does not get far from enough. Instead it is all about Petersen's character, but he is no Jodie Foster either. I am a bit surprised to see the strong reviews, rating and reception for this one here as I found it utterly bland and uninspired for the most part. The final shooting wasn't bad, but it's certainly not worth sitting through 90 minutes of mediocrity (at best) for that. Maybe it is worth checking out for the very biggest fans of everything Lecter-related, but everybody else can very much skip it. Mann is a filmmaker where I have not seen too much yet, but want to, but I must admit this film here did not get me curious about his body of work at all. It was also a letdown from the atmospheric side. Watch something else instead.

leplatypus I didn't know that my last movie with Kim was about this degenerate (as David Lynch told) character of Hannibal! But while all the others movies are famous, this one is rather leftover and it's a pity because it's a very tense thriller and very cautious movie: Unlike the nauseating Scott movie that keeps on talking and showing the thing, here it's always unexposed and you don't see anything. So on the other hand, the psychological tension is really high and with Mann stylized directing (big frame, slow pace), the movie keeps on playing with your nerves and sometimes it's even very ironic: Manhunter talks about Hannibal with his son in a grocery store! The next female victim drinks with a long, thick glass in front of this sexual pervert! ...The cast is really excellent: the Manhunter is a newcomer for me and he is really good to play his torments; Noonan is always impressive with his dark nutty parts and if Kim is indeed totally wasted in her small part, she is always this same cute girl! So this movie is just a best example when less means more!

generationofswine The focus in this film is wonderful.Movies like this often shine the spotlight on the killer. Hannibal Lecter is the star, Ted Bundy is the star, whatever killer the movie is about tends to be the star of the film.It means you are watching roughly the same movie over and over again, and, what's worse is the killer really has the easy job.Manhunter focuses on the real hero, it focuses on the person that has to hunt down the killer. It makes for one heck of an entertaining movie and one you don't often see. January Man is really the only other prominent movie like this that comes to mind.The difference, however, at least what sets Manhunter apart is that it really gives the audience the sense that, yes, the good guys have the daunting task of finding a needle in a haystack and that really ups the tension. You get the sense that they have to find one person out of millions before he kills again.Because of that it's moody and wonderful to watch, it does a better job of creating the tension, the sense of over-whelming difficulty the good guys have to face than the more killer focused Red Dragon could ever do.

Aya M first I would like to point out that horror movies are not my cup of tea, I rarely watch them and even less likely to like them. then I would like to point out that I was born in 1989 so I missed all the great 1980s movies but what made me really oblivious of this movie is that it is not as talked about as the rest of the Hannibal movies which is sad.the film is great in every way and William Petersen did such a great job portraying the brilliant, on-the-edge-of-madness FBI profiler Will Graham and Brian Cox's Hannibal was great especially while interacting with Graham, everything in this movie is great and I am astonished at how little recognition it gets among audience. in the end, the movie belongs to a genre that I don't usually enjoy but I enjoyed it (mainly because I watched it in the morning and in human company).