Hannibal Rising The Weinstein Company // R // $29.95 // May 29,
2007 Review by Ian Jane | posted May 31, 2007 Rent It E - M A I
L this review to a friend Graphical Version The Movie:  If
Hollywood is to be believed (and usually it's not) all good
movie monsters have a beginning so it only makes sense from a
franchise perspective if not an artistic one that the origin of
Hannibal Lecter would one day be made into a film. Based on the
book of the same name by Thomas Harris, Hannibal Rising is a
reasonably well written and well made film that takes a lot of
the mystery and therefore a lot of the eeriness out of the
character, therefore reducing him to little more than a classier
Freddy Kruger.  The film begins in 1940s Lithuania where a young
Hannibal Lecter (Aaran Thomas) and his sister Mischa (Helena-Lia
Tachovska) live a very comfortable life. When the Second World
War wreaks havoc on the area they call home, the two kids, along
with their parents (Richard Leaf and Ingeborga Dapkunaite), have
to leave their c