The killer that we admire!

Rating: 8/10 (8 November 2014)

There are two types of worthy villains: those who are so despicable that we revel in the cold- blooded personality that we look at from the outside looking in, and the one that we want to identify with. That villain can appear socially intelligent, a cunning schemer and, at times, sympathetic. In Hannibal Lecter we get both. All else is a police drama that allows Jodie Foster to star with a dismaying West Virginia accent and a propped up set of credentials that places her in a position to be at the center of it all. For me, although Foster is always interesting to look at, it is Ted Levines' "Buffalo Bill" that encases the chilling nature of the film because we get a glimpse of the biggest reason we watch horror films. What drive the evil found in mankind. Levine gives us a chilling and fascinatingly demented killer and we see why he's doing what he's doing. We admire Anthony Hopkins "Hannibal" as a brilliant doctor who also happens to be self aware and just as evil.