But they are only one reason the film has received accolades at festivals worldwide. Chris Rock plays an untalented stand-up comic who is hit by a truck, goes to heaven, discovers a mistake is made, and is allowed to return to Earth inside the body of an old white millionaire. In the ruins of Stalingrad in 1942, two snipers wage a deadly duel. Both are loners and very good at their jobs. When the film focuses on their private war, it works with rare concentration.
Some vampires apparently have better table manners than others.
The difference between these two styles of noshing might be described as the difference between a black-tie banquet and a roadside beer blast of bikers on acid. Written and directed by Tom Green, it's a cruel prank on people who will pay for tickets hoping to be entertained, only to be deliberately bored, annoyed and insulted. By setting him free to roam, the movie diminishes his status from a locus of evil to a mere predator. FBI Agent Clarice Starling is back on the case, as is Lecter's horribly disfigured victim Mason Verger, who wants to feed him to wild boars. In Florence, where Lecter hides in plain view as a wealthy curator, an Italian cop tries to sell him to Verger, but spills his guts instead.