Hannibal (2001)

Most people think so. 80% of audiences gave it a thumbs up based on 5,114 votes. Critics scored it lower at 48%, but audiences disagreed.

After having successfully eluded the authorities for years, Hannibal peacefully lives in Italy in disguise as an art scholar. Trouble strikes again when he's discovered leaving a deserving few dead in the process. He returns to America to make contact with now disgraced Agent Clarice Starling, who is suffering the wrath of a malicious FBI rival as well as the media. Wikipedia ↗

Hannibal is a 2001 American psychological horror thriller directed by Ridley Scott, the sequel to The Silence of the Lambs. Anthony Hopkins returns as Dr. Hannibal Lecter, now living freely in Florence, Italy under an assumed identity as a museum curator, while FBI agent Clarice Starling, now played by Julianne Moore replacing Jodie Foster, investigates a case that draws her back into Lecter's orbit.

Meanwhile, Mason Verger, played by Gary Oldman under extreme prosthetic makeup, the only surviving victim of Lecter's attacks — a disfigured, paralyzed billionaire — plots to capture and feed Lecter to specially bred man-eating boars. Ridley Scott brought a lavish, operatic visual style to the material, giving Florence's art and architecture a beauty that served as ironic counterpoint to Lecter's monstrous nature. The dinner scene, in which Lecter feeds a character his own brain while the victim is still conscious, pushed the limits of mainstream horror.

Hannibal earned $351 million worldwide on a $87 million budget.