I Know I'm Probably In The Minority

Rating: 7/10 (1 March 2015)

I have often considered this movie (and the performances of Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster) to be over rated. I didn't like it upon release, and I found myself bored when I revisited it several years later.
However I recently got in to a debate with a friend when I said Robin Williams should have won the Oscar for "Fisher King", and either Susan Surrandon or Geena Davis should have won for "Thelma & Louise" over Hopkins and Foster in this movie, and he disagreed strongly suggesting I Rewatch this asap. So here we go.
Plot in A Paragraph: Clarice Starling (Foster) a young U.S. FBI trainee, seeks the advice of the imprisoned Dr. Lecter (Hopkins) to apprehend another serial killer, known only as "Buffalo Bill".
Don't get me wrong, both Hopkins and Foster are very good here, I just find the movie routine and their performances over rated. They do have really good chemistry, but only share four scenes throughout the course of the film, with Hopkins only appearing in about 20-25 minutes of the movie.
Scott Glenn and Charles Napier give solid support in smaller roles.
"Silence Of The Lambs" was only the third film, the other two being It Happened One Night and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, to win Academy Awards in all the top five categories: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, and Adapted Screenplay. It is also the first Best Picture winner widely considered to be a horror film.