hollywood have churn out yet another garbage that wildly overhyped and underwhelming on a first time view basis . hannibal be bad and terrible and inept and lame and droll and idiotic and contrived and laughable and utterly atrocious ( no pun intend ) . minor spoiler follow . this movie have huge logic hole more than any bruckheimer or bay movie or for that matter any movie that exemplify the indulgence of hollywood exaggeration . it a slick hollywood production design to cash in on hannibal lector mania and direct by so somber he take this way too seriously hack director ridley scott and produce by a hack italian producer with an inflated ego whose credo be doesn not matter whether film be st and money be good . i can not get over the fact that acclaim screenwriter david mamet and steven zaillian write this tripe adapt from a lame and pretentious book by a good novelist turn hack author thomas harris . david and steven well know and immensely talented screenwriter waste their effort on a poor screenplay in exchange for fat paycheck . another factor in the disappointment of this film . there be too many ludicrous scene to list that be laughable in clunky execution and poor logic e. g. starling or pazzi cell phone in the midst of lecter pursuit that turn up inspector pazzi a the victim . not to mention laughably bad dialogue deliver by tony hopkins with a smirk and julianne moore and ray liotta and others who can not act with the straight face . hopkins give the true meaning of scenery chew along with hammy act by gary oldman a a deformed psychopath bent on exact revenge against lecter . the gore effect be good and but only serve to repulse rather than provide suspense which be notably absent from hannibal . the predecessor silence of the lamb be more believable with tension and suspense . suspense be what make silence of the lamb work a a spectacular mix of psychological horror and thriller and not to mention superbly write and tensely direct . the brain dinner sequence be so laughably fake it border on self parody . the end be kinda blatant and idiotic be we suppose to believe that lecter be still a menace to society with the last shot establish his glitter eye glare at you . ooh and scary . .