Ready to explore the dark fringes of human behavior? And experience both enjoyment and terror at the same time while being educated by the world's best lecturer Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins).

Rating: 6/10 (8 February 2001)

Finally after ten years I watched The, Silence of the Lambs for the first time and I must say that it is not as great as everybody had said. I can say that after watching it though I felt like I was educated by the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit! I love the script it seemed to have a real life ring to it. You have Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) as an FBI trainee who wants to be a member of the behavioral science unit that studies violent crime and serial killings and once the brutal killings across several eastern and midwestern states begin all the work of "Buffalo Bill". Clarice enlists the aid of a former psychologist and now imprisoned sociopath (Anthony Hopkins) to help track the killer. And I must say that Hopkins gives a mind numbing performance he really made a great educated sociopath the movie explores the dark nature of life but mainly it proves all of us can receive a mind playing education just as Hopkins does so well with the Foster character as he brings out her dark fears and past mistakes such as the incident with a crying lamb as a child maybe we will later learn in the Hannibal sequel that a lamb doesn't stay silent forever you know Anthony's Hannibal will roar like a lion. The, Silence of the Lambs falls short of matching the gore and high drama of movies like Se7en but the script is so mind tingling and while the Hopkins character has the ability to know the future of all and any crazy individuals while he surprises himself and others with the rude nature and he can always play his own mind games to his advantage that is what makes The, Silence of the Lambs a classic. Let's hope Hannibal is this good.