My favorite movie ever.

Rating: 10/10 (22 February 2002)

It dumbfounds me how I only saw this movie for the first time in May of 2001, when it had been out since very early 1991. They plug the stuffing out of this movie on almost every TV show, especially those running around the time of this movie's release. So finally, I rented it from Blockbuster, expecting good things, because it won 5 Oscars, has Jodie Foster(who has since become my favorite actress and dream wife) in it, and it's notoriety. I got more than I asked for. Jodie Foster plays Clarice Starling to the "tee-est" of "T's". Young, beautiful, determined, brilliant, vulnerable. Hopkins scares and intrigues me simultaneously, amazing how I would never want to be in the same room as Hannibal Lecter, yet would not mind terribly if he sat down next to me on a park bench. Hopkins calculated every movement, every speech, and basically brought Hannibal Lecter to life in which maybe no other fictional character has been brought to life, made a part of human consciousness. In 2010, he will face Keyzer Soze for the title of the most feared movie villain ever. This and "Fatal Attraction" have the distinction of being the only two films to ever scare me, frighten me, seriously unsettle me. I own the movie, am soon getting the DVD, and am sorry "Hannibal" was not as good as this. Movie deserved every award it won, and the infamy surrounding it is no accident. Helllllooooooo Clarice. 10 out of 10.