Brian Cox's playing Hannibal Lecktor is a mismatch

I was watching L.I.E. with the director's commentary yesterday; Brian Cox plays a key character in the movie, and I thought that I want to watch other movies featuring him. I have seen recent movies featuring him such as The Bourne Supremacy, 25th Hour, The Ring and The Bourne Identity, but I have not seen his earlier movies, so I picked Manhunter, which is a movie based on Red Dragon (its sequence is The Silence of the Lambs). The movie itself is unimpressive to say the least, and also I find that Brian Cox's playing Hannibal Lecktor is a mismatch. Brian Cox has played number of memorable characters brilliantly, but one of Hannibal Lecktor's (Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs) outstanding characteristics is his intellect. It's not that Brian Cox does not look intelligent, but he tends to play characters that show power and dominance created from his power. Ward Abbott in The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Identity is a great example. Big John Harriganb in L.I.E. is another example. Both are intelligent characters, but their main characteristic is not intellect. Brian Cox doesn't do a bad job in Manhunter, but Brian Cox's playing Hannibal Lecktor in the movie is a mismatch.