Love the suit......

Rating: 10/10 (5 July 2014)

FBI agent Clarice Starling is assigned to help find a missing woman and save her from a serial killer who skins his victims.
To gain a better insight into the twisted mind of the killer, she liaises with Hannibal Lecter, who used to be a respected psychiatrist, but due to hid palate, is now an inmate at a top security facility.
FBI agent Jack Crawford believes that Lecter, who is also a very powerful and clever mind manipulator, has the answers to their questions and can help locate the killer.
However, Clarice must first gain Lecter's confidence before the inmate will give away any information.......
In 1991, this movie changed the way that thrillers and horror movies would be made for a very long time. For the next ten or so years, you couldn't move in a cinema for films that hugely relied on this movie, and its original source material.
If it wasn't for this movie,mew wouldn't have Se7en, Kiss The Girls, or even the Saw franchise.
Even though its a blooming scary, the film relies more on the manipulation of the protagonists, and the wonderful cat and mouse games played between key characters. There are so many red herrings going on, that the only genuine relationship in the whole movie is that of Lecter's and Starling's.
And what performances we have from Foster and Hopkins. These are career defining performances, and yes, they were both prolific artists before the movie for years, but ask anyone about either two, and I guarantee they will mention this movie right away.
The chemistry between the two is electric, and although they only share a few scenes, its cinematic gold.
The camera-work is cold and stark, and the use of head shots subliminally breaking the fourth wall, adds to the tension, and almost makes you feel like you are in the actual narrative.
Its a solid movie, gripping you from the bleak opening credits, right up to one of the best lines in the film.
But the biggest surprise is the wonderful trick the film throws at you, duping you into thinking that the FBI are at the killers house, when it's just Starling at the door. Its a brilliant twist that would have shocked many when first seen, and then the lights go off.....
All in all, its not just one of the defining movies of the nineties, its one of the greatest thrillers ever made.
It's that brilliant.