Synopsis
FBI Agent Will Graham, who retired after catching Hannibal Lecter, returns to duty to engage in a risky cat-and-mouse game with Lecter to capture a new killer.
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Cast
- William PetersenWill Graham
- Tom NoonanFrancis Dollarhyde
- Joan AllenReba McClane
- Brian CoxDr. Hannibal Lecktor
- Dennis FarinaJack Crawford
- Stephen LangFreddy Lounds
- Kim GreistMolly Graham
- David SeamanKevin Graham
- Benjamin HendricksonDr. Frederick Chilton
- Chris ElliottZeller
Recommendations
- 100
Salon
The best Hannibal Lecter movie and one of the greatest suspense movies ever made... A lurid masterpiece that pays homage to the seductiveness of pulp, not by dressing it in the trappings of fine art but by stripping it to the essentials of what we responded to in the material in the first place. - 90
Film Threat
As with all of Mann's films, Manhunter is an intense experience. All of the actors, including even legendary goofball Chris Elliott, give brooding, serious performances. - 90
The A.V. Club
Mann takes all the instincts he learned as a Miami Vice producer and trims them of their excesses, and the result is an unsettling thriller whose detached style perfectly complements its psychological intensity. - 88
Chicago Tribune
William L. Petersen (''To Live and Die in L.A.”) gives another mesmerizing, seeming nonperformance as the brilliant agent on the trail of a serial killer who has murdered families in the South. [29 Aug 1986] - 83
Entertainment Weekly
The brilliance of Michael Mann's Manhunter is that it appreciates that the true nexus of humanity is our shared closeness. - 80
TV Guide Magazine
Petersen is superb as the obsessive investigator who risks madness each time he takes on a case, and Tom Noonan is absolutely chilling as the psycho killer. - 70
Variety
An unpleasantly gripping thriller... Interesting Hitchcockian guilt transference territory and Mann's grip on his material is tight and sure. Director is at all times preoccupied by visual chic. - 70
Chicago Reader
I'm rather intrigued with what Mann does with his stylistic envelope: it's simultaneously hypnotic and enervating, meditative and empty, like a white-noise background or a field of electronic snow on the tube.
