Red Dragon is an entertaining movie, but not as taut or well directed as Manhunter.

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The main difference in plot between Red Dragon and Manhunter is the ending.

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But big parts eluded him until he was 40, when he was spotted in a play and cast for Michael Mann's Manhunter.

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On the plus side, Emily Watson is very good (as was Joan Allen in Manhunter though) and Philip Seymour Hoffman is possibly the grubbiest, sleaziest character seen on screen in a while.

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William Petersen was more effective than the oddly unsympathetic Edward Norton, Tom Noonan was much scarier than Ralph Fiennes, and Anthony Hopkins hams it up really REALLY badly here, compared to Brian Cox in Manhunter.

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