Just saw it...
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I'm severely dissapointed. Here are the things I need to say.
- After 10 years, I wanted it to be a "bigger deal" when they spoke on the phone again, or when they finally saw each other face to face - there should have been a feeling of awe between them - but there wasn't.
- Who's idea was it to show grusome things for 2 hours, and then have Ray Liotta crack some stupid jokes with his brain showing? It was GOOFY, and was totally out of place with the rest of the movie.
- The part with the girl at the end wasn't too bad - it was disturbing, but still clever in a sense.
- They didn't go into enough depth with all the characters - when Mason Verger was killed, it didn't matter, mostly do the way Hannibal just said "Oh and by the way...you can just say it was me...", etc - it felt like it was thrown in.
- The movie simply did not follow some essential rules. Now, movies can be original, but you don't build up scary scenes and then get the result over with quickly. You don't scare people and gross them out for the first 95% of the movie, and then act goofy in the end.
- I wish we'd have seen more sides to Hannibal. How? Well, they could have played up the fact that the first few times he EVER screwed up in these two movies were a result of his infatuation with Clarice - she is his one weakness, for the most part.
- The one scene that I truly enjoyed was the scene where the man with the silver bracelet was trying to get Hannibal's fingerprints - it was suspenseful and well done.
Overall, if you'd have taken away the goofy brain scene, it would have been a good movie, and a worthy sequel, but that ending, as of right now, has me very annoyed.