Extremely gory with a serial killer who makes human jigsaw pieces of his victims with an almost identical likeliness to Hannibal Lector.
It was good, not great. The charmingly personal yet chilling serial killer has been done to death now (no pun intended), and no one has executed it quite like Thomas Harris.
As a former prison officer, I can confirm that the prison scenes were ridiculous. Those scenes ruined it for me. Also, it was far too long.