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It's not bad, but the comparisons to Silence of the Lambs does it no favors. Visually it looks great - the scenes in Italy are especially beautiful - but the story really suffers from its diversions from the book. In the book we get to follow Hannibal as he lives his free life, and we get to follow him as he follows his urges that make him a villain, and also get to take part in his life of cultured largesse. The movie however paints him merely as a meek museum curator with a secret. The ending especially is a pretty monumental cop-out compared to the big "wow" moment in the book.

Overall though this is worth watching. Anthony Hopkins is still an incredible, sinister villain and the movie is entertaining, it just could have been so much better.

An incredibly interesting concept that is completely flushed down the toilet by awful execution. The art is pretty good and I liked the technical end of this anime but the writing and characterization were in most cases sub-par and in some cases genuinely bad. Near the end of season 1, I found myself desperately hoping that it would just end, as I just plain didn't care about any of the still-living characters or what they're doing, mainly because frankly they weren't doing anything except for punching monsters in character-unique ways.

In complete fairness, maybe season 2 fixes everything, but I never bothered watching it because season 1 was botched on so many levels. It's not a complete waste of time but I wish I had watched something else.

Bafflingly bad. You'd think getting Linda Hamilton and Arnold Schwarzenegger back together would at least add an interesting note of drama, but instead they've decided to rewrite Sarah Connor into a bitter, one-liner-spewing b---h and Arnold Schwarzenegger - you know, the original bad-boy Terminator - into a "funny" family man.

Probably most surprising to me was the surprisingly bad CG graphics used in this movie. The first scene has legitimately incredible CG, and every scene afterwards looks fake, overdone, and childish. It is a sad fact that Terminator 2, a movie that is officially 30 years old, had better computer generated graphics than this movie. Almost as bad are all the new characters. Your mileage may vary but I found myself completely unable to care about any of them at all. The new "hero" character is boring, the new "VIP" character is one-dimensional and annoying, and the new villain vacillates wildly between "unfeeling killing machine" and "LMAO so funny and relatable". Sarah Connor herself is now a completely unlikable psycho who is impossible to identify with. I have no idea who wrote this story but they deserve to be fired.

I regret watching this. Hell, Genisys was better by a very large margin.