Review: Red Dragon
After discovering
consulting psychologist Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Sir Anthony Hopkins) is the very
serial killer he was supposed to be helping to apprehend, FBI agent Will Graham
(Edward Norton) has retired to family life with wife Mary Louise Parker and
son. However, Graham (who was injured by Lecter) is drawn back into the fold
several years later by FBI director Crawford (Harvey Keitel) with a new serial
killer nicknamed ‘The Tooth Fairy’. And the only way Graham is going to nab
this sicko is to once again seek the counsel of Dr. Lecter. Meanwhile, we get
to know ‘The Tooth Fairy’ AKA Francis Dollarhyde (Ralph Fiennes), a disfigured,
surprisingly meek and heavily withdrawn and lonely man who is striking up a
tentative relationship with a sweet-natured, blind co-worker (Emily Watson).
Philip Seymour Hoffman plays repugnant, tabloid reporter Freddy Lounds, who is
always skulking about, whilst Frank Whaley plays Watson’s sleazy co-worker, and
both Anthony Heald and Frankie Faison reprise…