There is, of course, one over-riding question about this surprisingly well-wrought thriller. Why make it, when Michael Mann had already produced the acclaimed Manhunter from the same Thomas Harris novel?

There are valid reasons -- not least of which is that Mann treated the novel like several hundred pages of suggestions, and a faithful treatment was worth doing.
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Fans of Thomas Harris' madman Hannibal Lecter can rest easy.

Though not as good as Jonathan Demme's Silence of the Lambs, Brett Ratner's Red Dragon is better than Ridley Scott's Hannibal.
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