"I ate his liver with Fava beans and a nice Chianti..."

Rating: 9/10 (16 January 2001)

Dr. Hannibal Lecter: incredibly brilliant, amazingly deceptive and manipulative, and unspeakably evil. "The Silence of the Lambs" delves into the depths of the mind of Hannibal Lecter. In 1991, when "The Silence of the Lambs" was released, audiences were shocked when the previously mild-mannered Anthony Hopkins delivered the amazing performance as Hannibal Lecter. It was the the third movie in history to recieve all five major Academy Awards, Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, and Best Screenplay. The Academy was right in giving the awards to this fantastic movie. Clarice Starling is taken away from her normal training as an F.B.I. agent and is dispatched to speak with Lecter, a formerly well known psychologist and now imprisoned murderer. Her mission in this is to get a mental profile of Buffalo Bill, the current serial killer who the F.B.I. are desperately hunting down. Maybe, if they had a mental profile from an actual serial killer, and cannibal, they could get inside the mind of Buffalo Bill and catch him. Hannibal then more or less informs Clarice that Bill was once a patient of his. As Clarice again interviews Lecter, the story unfolds. This film is more than just the pursuit to catch a serial killer, more than the actions of a serial killer, it is a journey into the mind of an enigma, Dr. Hannibal Lecter.