By the way, Red Dragon is a surprisingly good movie, not especially scary but intelligent and considerably satisfying nonetheless. In retrospect, Brett (Rush Hour) Ratner seems like an ideal choice to direct. Unlike Ridley Scott, who is a much more singular director, Ratner has no visible style of his own to interfere with the story, which makes him all the more qualified to deliver what we really want: a decent pastiche of The Silence of the Lambs, rather than Hannibal, which was off in its own inexplicable universe. Red Dragon won't haunt anyone the way The Silence of the Lambs does, but as a well-crafted revisit to that famous underground cell, it's well worth seeing.