Review of Red Dragon (2002) by David S — 09 Jun 2010

This movie is a flaming piece of turd. It's got some great actors in it, like a hop, ed norton, philip seymour hoffman, but the one actor that should have been a well known one should have been whoever played francis dolarhyde.

Dolph Lundgrens brother shouldn't have played this role, especially since it was such an important role in this movie. Now I've seen the original manhunter and didn't appreciate the tension and suspense that one created.

I do now since this movie said fuck all that noise, this is going to be "got to catch the bad guy cop drama" with very little emphasis on the battle that will graham has to fight with himself.

Throw that out the window. Plus, dolarhyde has such a confusing backstory. It doesn't make any sense, plus the movie shoving the red dragon premise down your throat makes little sense. PLUS, fuck that twist ending.

That was logically impossible. SPOILER ALERT: Ok he didn't shoot himself. You learn that, but who did he shoot? There was a body. You find out it's supposedly his coworker ralph mandy. Allright, he's dead for sure, got one right between the eyes.

So wait? He's dead dead. He supposedly shot him and you see reba find the body, so how did the blood splatter hit the side of her face? Where was this floating body? It couldn't have been on the ground the whole time because a) the blood splatter came from the side, not from beneath her and B) there was a wide shot 20 seconds earlier that showed NO BODY on the ground where it was to be found.

So that made no sense. It was a cheap way to infuse some drama and suspense in this shitty movie.