Hannibal Rising

So, I watched that movie this weekend. I was kind of disappointed. Certainly, the story was interesting. But the film was very dark & intense, sometimes hard to follow. It was very gory, but I think the gore was necessary to the character development....not just shock value like in Hannibal. But the real disappointment was that it almost went TOO far back. I wanted this movie to end where Red Dragon began, with Hannibal's arrest. Instead, it began when he was a small child and ended when he was about 25. Also, the story doesn't completely make sense with his later pathology. Using this background, at some point Hannibal goes from a revenge killer to someone who kills just for pleasure, and we don't know why. It's easy to see why he enjoyed the revenge killings...but what made him switch to "innocent" victims? How did he choose his later vics? There are a lot of questions left unanswered. Like I said, the story was good, but Red Dragon & Silence of the Lambs are still the best in the series.