The first season of Hannibal follows FBI Agent Will Graham's (Hugh Dancy) as he becomes increasingly immersed in his efforts to find a brutal serial killer. When Special Agent Jack Crawford (Laurence Fishburne) pairs him with a highly skilled psychiatrist - who, unbeknownst to them, is the perpetrator himself, notorious serial killer Hannibal Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen) - Will questions his own sanity as his cannibalistic partner subjects him to a series of mind games.
An exceptional and awful thriller until the last ten minutes turns into a video game boss fight. Before that it's one of the best thrillers of all time.
A film that holds a mirror up to us as a society to show us how ugly we are. Asks the question of how we would react to someone like Superman and what it would take for him to overcome our petty hatred and become the hero we know him to be.
The first half is incredibly tense and fun, then there's an intermission that destroys the atmosphere and when the film returns it's so much lesser and rougher.
The first half is great as it introduces the characters and sets up the villain plot, but then it falls to pieces with a generic and empty second half.