Red Dragon

I’m very conflicted on Red Dragon- there’s parts i absolutely love and parts that I’m really not too keen on. The scene with Philip Seymour Hoffman and Ralph Fiennes is an all timer (even better as they are two of my favourite actors), all capped off with another amazing fire stunt, the cast itself is really incredible and underrated (I prefer Harvey Keitel as Crawford than I do Scott Glenn). However!! My biggest problem is actually Anthony Hopkins who is a complete parody of Lecter at this point and so far gone from his original Oscar winning performance , which on top of a mediocre script and cinematography which is in my opinion too derivative of Silence of the Lambs really hurts the film. The cinematography which becomes derivative in the scenes with Lecter and Graham is shot way too similarly to the similar scenes in Silence, I wouldn’t complain normally since there’s not many more ways you can actually shoot a scene like that, but when the cinematography is part of Silence’s meaning it really bugs me.