Red Dragon

OK........wouldn't you just love to know which studio executive or executives were behind this mess of a movie. Let's start with director Brett Ratner who up to this point was known for a couple of RUSH HOUR films and a Madonna video (allbeit a damn good one...BEAUTIFUL STRANGER) and the studio decides to hire him to direct one of the most eagerly anticipated horror films of 2002?!?!?!?!?!?!? Let's just not bother going here, Ralph Fiennes, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Harvey Keitel, Emily Watson, Edward Norton and poor, poor, poor Anthony Hopkins.....all wasted talent here. I can forgive Edward Norton for this one as he took the money he made from RED DRAGON to make his film 25th HOUR, but the others, with perhaps the exception of Watson look like they mailed in their performances and honestly should be ashamed...they could have at the very least kicked Ratner out of the director's chair and did it themselves by tribal council or something. Be smart and stick with Michael Mann`s version MANHUNTER which shows a good script with fine directing and acting can overcome budget restrictions any day!