Red Dragon/Silence Of The Lambs/Hannibal (DVD 2003)

In this prequel to 'The Silence Of The Lambs', Edward Norton stars as ex-FBI agent Will Graham, an expert investigator who quit the Bureau after almost losing his life in the process of capturing Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins).

Years later, after a series of particularly grisly murders, Graham reluctantly agrees to come out of retirement and assist in the case. But he soon realises that the best way to catch this killer, known as the Tooth Fairy, is to find a way to get inside the killer's mind. And the closest thing to that would be to probe the mind of another killer who is equally brilliant and equally twisted. For Graham, that means confronting his past and facing his former nemesis, the now-incarcerated Lecter...

As Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter, Anthony Hopkins is the archetypical antihero--cultured, quick-witted, uncontainable--a portrait of the sharpest human faculties gone diabolically wrong. His performance marked him as a major star in America, and the movie swept the 1991 Academy Awards--Best Picture, Director (Jonathan Demme), Actor (Hopkins), Actress (Foster), and Screenplay Adaptation (Ted Tally, from the novel by Thomas Harris).

Having escaped the asylum in 'Silence of the Lambs', Dr Lecter goes into hiding in Florence. Back in America, Mason Verger, an old victim of the doctor's, seeks revenge. Disfigured and confined to a life-support system, he plans to draw Lecter out of his hiding place, using the one thing he truly cares for: Clarice Starling...

THE HANNIBAL LECTER FILMS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A FAVURITE OF MINE.LIKE ALL THE FILMS.PARTICULARLY LIKE THE WAY ANTHONY HOPKINS PLAYS THE HANNIBAL LECTER ROLE WITH SMOOTH CHARM AND CHARISMA.JODIE FOSTER ALSO SHINES AS CLARICE STARLING THE ROOKIE FBI AGENT SENT TO CONVINCE LECTER TO HELP THE FBI TO CATCH SERIAL KILLER BUFFALO BILL.THE 3 FILMS PACKAGED TOGETHER IN ONE BOXSET IS A PLUS AS THEY ARE VERY WELL DONE AND VERY WELL ACTED.THERE WAS NOTHING TO DISLIKE ABOUT THESE FILMS AS THEY ARE WELL STOCKED WITH EXTRAS.THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS FILM WON 5 ACADEMY AWARDS WHEN RELEASED IN 1991.ALTHOUGH THIS FILM IS VIEWED WITH GREAT FONDNESS BY THE PUBLIC THE OTHER 2 FILMS HANNIBAL AND RED DRAGON WERE WELL RECIEVED BY THE PUBLIC.THE ONLY DOWN POINT IS THAT THE OTHER FILMS DONE ABOUT HANNIBAL LECTER NAMELY MANHUNTER REMADE AS RED DRAGON AND HANNIBAL RISING ARE ALSO GOOD FILMS TO INCLUDE IN THIS BOXSET.ONE DAY THE WHOLE HANNIBAL LECTER STORY WILL BE INCLUDED IN ONE BOXSET FOR EVERYONE TO ENJOY.