Slow at times, but still a good FBI thriller

Rating: Null/10 (2 July 2003)

"Silence of the Lambs" is well done, but personally I think Oliver Stone should have taken home Best Director Oscar for JFK instead that year. The performances from Hopkins and Foster are of course perfect, and even Ted Levine's Buffalo Bill was well-done.
The plot focuses on FBI trainee Starling (Foster) recruited by Jack Crawford (Scott Glenn) to seek help from "Hannibal the Cannibal" (Anthony Hopkins), an imprisoned psychiatrist, to find a crazed sexual killer (Ted Levine). Each performance is played to its highest point by the actor (specificly Hopkins, of course).
The thing that slows this film down though are the almost endless investigation scenes. Since we already know who the killer is at the beginning, there is little point going into so much detail on how the FBI find him - especially because it turns out they've got the wrong person anyway!.
Despite some slower scenes it's still an entertaining, classic movie, 8/10.