Manhunter

1986

Action / Crime / Horror / Mystery / Thriller

98
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 77% · 52 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 77% · 50K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.2/10 10 90270 90.3K

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Plot summary

FBI Agent Will Graham, who retired after catching Hannibal Lecktor, returns to duty to engage in a risky cat-and-mouse game with Lecktor to capture a new killer.

Director

Michael Mann Photo
Michael Mann

Top cast

Marshall Bell Photo
Marshall Bell as Atlanta Policeman
Peter Maloney Photo
Peter Maloney as Dr. Dominick Princi
Stephen Lang Photo
Stephen Lang as Freddy Lounds
John Posey Photo
John Posey as Mr. Jacobi
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
870.68 MB
1280*544
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
2 hr 0 min
Seeds 13
1.82 GB
1920*816
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
2 hr 0 min
Seeds 84

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by georgerennie-97328 8 / 10

It's weird dude.

This film is shot -- quite deliberately I'm sure -- as a surrealist nightmare.This film is often compared with "Silence of the Lambs", but it is not a good comparison. "Manhunter" is more focused on the FBI specialist who's trying to hunt down a psychopath it's less theatrical than "Silence" but just as visceral. You might think the plot is exactly the same... and, it is in a sense (substitute the main FBI agent, Will, for Clarise, for instance), but the direction and focus is very different. I found this far more unpleasant and real. Both are excellent movies, but this captures psychopathy more accurately.The scenes with Hannibal Lecter are clearly designed to be unpleasant, as are many other scenes. You can see Michael Mann's obsession with white throughout the film -- it's unsettling, in the way that an insane asylum would be.A brilliant film. But not a fun watch.
Reviewed by michaeljpfitzgerald 7 / 10

What a tremendous surprise.

Having finally seen MANHUNTER, I am left wondering why anyone ever felt the need to remake it - RED DRAGON is a fine flick, with a fine cast, but it feels exceptionally pale given what a tremendous source it was drawing from; scene for scene, line for line at some points.So much threat, such a pervading sense of menace; the character work, and the direction, the wonderful soundtrack - it hums along, and there's no place to stop to catch your breath. I really adored this, and if you're looking for a really engrossing thriller, and I mean thriller, this movie delivers.
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