Dated

I do like this film, really. It has a very good villain in Buffalo Bill, who really feels very sick and twisted, and I as a viewer really did feel bad feelings towards him. It's a rather black/white-way of doing a serial killer-story, but that's what I consider Silence of the Lambs to be: the culmination of the clichéd serial killer hunt. The thing it does differently though is that instead of visiting a low-life crackhead for information, the main character squeezes it out of another serial killer; Hannibal Lecter, played by Anthony Hopkins, is a very sly son of a bitch who is always looking for the best way for him to return to his cannibalistic ways. The film also handles it's female protagonist very well; she often takes not of the fact that she is a woman in a man's world, and we clearly see her determination in succeeding in this realm of men and big guns with nothing but a hidden accent and quick wits. However most of the problems with Silence of the Lambs aside from being a tad too clichéd and predictable come from it visually being from the 60s or something. Jonathan Demme, the director, clearly has a hard-on for the overt use of facial close-ups, and that's all we see during dialogue scenes in the entire film. This diminishes the intelligent writing and good performances a lot, making the film as a whole feel mored or less dated depeding on the number of films the viewer has watched.

8/10