Brilliant-the best of the Hannibal quartet. Read it and weep.

Rating: 10/10 (7 April 2007)

Congratulations are in order. Each of the films has lots to offer (Manhunter the least), but Silence of --- offers the most. I've never seen a better performance from Jodie Foster. Anthony Hopkins will forever be remembered as Dr. Lector. Who else could play the role? Johnny Depp, as fine an actor as he is?
On to the most despicable characters; they are so easy to hate, more so than Lector's murderous cadre of acolytes, who, after all, have an excuse. In order of increasing odiousness: 1. Catherine, the rich, loudmouthed senator's daughter. Whatta bitch! She would have done better as a capacious frock. 2. Freddy Lounds, the flaming asshole tabloid publisher. Whatta spectacular way to go! 3. Dr. Chilton, the smarmy director of the mental hospital, who never tired of tormenting his prisoner, Hannibal Lector. Did he go well with fava beans? We can only hope so, for Lector's sake.
Finally, is that Barney who gets off the plane in the ISLANDS, MON, with Dr. Chilton? There was a remark made about security for the Big Shots. If so, that was just desserts.
One of the most sensuous scenes in any film I have seen is when the blind woman, Reba, is taken by Dolarhyde to 'experience' the beautiful tiger, under sedation. The way she listened, took in the scent and touched the animal, finally burying her cheek in its fur. Now, THAT was a scene! It beats the pants off Salome's dance, eh?