Good start, but then it gets ruined

A lot of fun.

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

I recently had the pleasure of watching this movie for the first time just today. And I had no idea what I was missing. I envy anyone who hasn't seen it. Everything about this movie is amazing, for one: the performances. This amazing performance by Anthony Hopkins is amazing and is like nothing I've ever seen before, he truly captures the fear of a real villain. Second, the story, this film is filled with moments where I was completely glued to the screen in suspense, something that rarely happens to me. I was completely captured by the idea of what scary or disgusting thing was going to happen next.WATCH THIS FILM YOU WILL NOT REGRET IT!

Great film, Hannibal Lector is probably one of the creepiest and scariest villains in a film that I've ever seen, a real monster in human skin. The film is incredibly tense and has some great body horror, really gross stuff. The best parts of the movie for me are the scenes between Starling and Lector, both of whom are great and interesting characters backed up with wonderful acting from Foster and Hopkins.

My mother was concerned for me because i was way to intent on catching every detail of the movie because of Anthony Hawkins performance. So naturally she took me to the doctors and they told her never let her watch that again! MMMMMMMMMMMM, TO LATE :)

I definitely understand why this movie has received many awards as well as its actors. The movie does a really good job at drawing you in more and more when you watch it. I really like the way Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) is portrayed as the good guy in trying to help the FBI, and wanting you to like him even though he is a serial killer; it brought a sense of benevolence to him. I thought it was interesting how the movie started off with watching Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) running through the forest; the way it was filmed made it seem like something was going to happen to her as she was running and then the guy coming up behind her, it starts off the movie with making you watch carefully and letting you know there will be surprises. Also, another interesting point in the beginning was how they used Clarice an agent in training as the person to help find Buffalo Bill (Ted Levine) and trying to get information out of Hannibal. I really like the relationship between Hannibal and Clarice, it started out as Clarice being very afraid of Hannibal and as the movie went on they got closer and there was a sense of respect for each other. The way Hannibal was asking Clarice about her childhood was a really intriguing way of trying to help her solve the case. It made the timeline of the movie even more interesting; because, there was kind of two stories one inside the other the main story being the FBI trying to find Buffalo Bill and the small story being the relationship between Hannibal and Clarice. Overall I thought the movie was really good, I am not a big fan of horror movies but I liked the story this one had and the way it was all put together. It is definitely worthy of the awards it got and the actors.