Two of the best acting performances of all time.

Rating: Null/10 (20 April 2004)

If ever there were two more deserving recipients of Best Actor and Best Actor Academy Awards, I don't know who they'd be. Both Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins without a shadow of a doubt thoroughly deserve any accolades they receive. As a reader of the novel as well, I can sincerely say that Jodie Foster's performance of FBI agent/student Clarice Starling is purely inspiring. She manages to perfect Starling's manner and look to perfection, and manages to show her vulnerability when necessary, and still portray Starling with the correct amount of hardness and emotion. Hopkins' performance as Serial Psychopath Dr. Hannibal Lecter is a different story. At different times of the story he comes of as a total intellectual mastermind who can get inside the head of anyone he wants to, and at other times he comes of as the most fearful thing you have ever witnessed. However, Hopkins is most terrifying when you don't expect at all, one of the great strengths of his character building. Even the way he say his lines can come off as he is actually a Psychopath. An incredibly wonderful performance.