Excellent as high level psychological drama (but the book is better)

Rating: 9/10 (12 June 1999)

All right you guys. It's simply not appropriate to compare Silence of the Lambs with its 'prequel' Manhunter (Red Dragon). SOTL is a high level psychological drama targeted for the big audiences with top actors--with minimal procedurals. Manhunter is more of a procedural with attempts at psychology and targeted at a different (and smaller) audience with a virtually no-name cast. Each does its job very well, but its really unfair to compare the 2. After not getting to play Hannibal the cannibal in SOTL, I am glad to see Brian Cox getting other juicy (albeit smaller) roles, usually as the villain, in other action/suspense movies. As far as the novels go, Red Dragon is better written, but SOTL has a superior (virtually perfect) ending.