Hannibal is back in the third installment of the “Silence of the Lambs” trilogy, “Hannibal.” It’s been ten years since we last caught up with him and he’ s attempted to curb his appetite for flesh, but hey?a man has got to eat.

Since the last film and novel SOTL, Clarice Starling (Julianne Moore) has been negated to obscurity by her peers in the FBI and ends up taking the fall for a failed sting operation, in which a drug dealer is shot while holding a baby and one of her fellow agents is gunned down. It’s a public relation’s nightmare.

Starling then becomes embroiled in an attempt by a horribly disfigured Mason Verger (Gary Oldman), Hannibal’s only living victim, to capture Hannibal (Anthony Hopkins) and feed him to a bunch of wild boars.

Hannibal is living in Italy indulging in his taste for fine things and doing just fine until his identity is discovered by an Italian policeman named Pazzi (Giancarlo Giannini). Then the fun begins.

By now I am sure you’ve heard about this movie from your friends and reviewers that the film is gory and boring, but my friends this is not the case.

Director Ridley Scott pulled off a coup and manages to make this film unique. This is the one of the best interpretations of a novel that I have ever seen (with the exception of the ending.) I’ve read the Thomas Harris’ novel “Hannibal” and the movie does an excellent job of retaining the languid pace of the book. Scott and the screenwriters (David Mamet and Steve Zaillian) have a great story to tell and they are careful not to let it explode on the screen in a moment of fancy.

The bottom line is that this film is delicious and you will be asking yourself, “Jodie who?”

Four out of five Sinatras.