Title: Baddy Baddy
Product review: An unnecessarily graphic and grotesque follow up to "Silence of the Lambs". It jettisons most of the psychological byplay between Lecter and Starling that made "Silence" so good, in favor of "how-can-we-top-this?" graphic violence. By the time it reaches the final "dinner party" scene (I'll spare the details), it's not so much gross as it is ridiculous. Julianne Moore is very good given the thankless task of filling Jodie Foster's shoes as Clarice Starling, but Sir Anthony Hopkins becomes a parody of himself as the titular Hannibal Lecter. It's not his fault, mind you. Thomas Harris and Ridley Scott just forgot that what made Hannibal the Cannibal so menacing was not seeing what he did so much as imagining what he could do.
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