Suspenseful and classy at the same time!

Rating: 10/10 (16 September 2006)

This has everything it can give. The cast of the movie are anything but ordinary, and the plot is well made through and through. Jodie Foster does a spectacular job playing the role of Clarice Starling, a tough rookie FBI Agent. Anthony Hopkins is excellent as the clever, but sinister mass-murderer Dr. Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter. She goes to where Lecter(Hopkins) was being held. To me I get the chills being around that guy. But as the old saying goes, "to get a killer, to find a killer." That other killer is "Buffalo Bill"(Ted Levine), a Ed Geine-like killer who kidnapping and killing young women. Unlike Geine, he didn't eat his victims like Lecter. Trusting a killer like Lecter can be bone-chilling, but as long as a trust issue isn't a problem, they can work together. I like the scene where Lecter was in this round cage, and when he called out Clarice to get her papers, he strokes her hand with his finger. Some may call this scene nerve-racking, to me it's a flirt. He trusts Clarice, and I bet she does the same too. Hmmm! Then after that, he gets his dinner, he killed those two guards. He got the liver of the tougher one. Must tastes like foie gras. (HEH HEH!) And he wears the face of the other, another Ed Geine-like action. There's plenty to see in that movie, the moths, the booby traps, and the chilling climax this movie got. It didn't lack anything there! A Neo-classic! 5 stars!