Want to know the best Anthony Hopkins movies? How about the worst Anthony Hopkins movies? Curious about Anthony Hopkins box office grosses or which Anthony Hopkins movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Anthony Hopkins movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which ones got the worst? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.
I have received not one, not two but three requests to do a movie page on Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins (1937-), best known as Anthony Hopkins. The first time I noticed Anthony Hopkins was in his role in A Bridge Too Far in 1977. In a movie loaded with stars, I thought his role as Colonel Frost was one of the best parts in the movie. His most famous role is playing Hannibal Lecter in the Silence of the Lambs trilogy. He has appeared in over 60 movies since 1968. He has received three Oscar® nominations for Best Actor (Silence of the Lambs, Remains of the Day, Nixon) and one Oscar® nomination for Best Supporting Actor (Amistad). He won the Oscar® for Best Actor in Silence of the Lambs.
His IMDb page shows over 135 acting credits since 1965. This page will rank 69 Anthony Hopkins movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, shorts, cameos and movies that were not released in theaters were not included in the rankings.
Anthony Hopkins Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Year
Movie (Year)
Rating
S
Year Movie (Year) Rating S
1991
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
AA Best Picture Win
AA Best Actor Win
1968
The Lion in Winter (1968)
AA Best Picture Nom
2017
Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
1992
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
1998
The Mask of Zorro (1998)
1980
The Elephant Man (1980)
AA Best Picture Nom
2011
Thor (2011)
1977
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
2013
Thor: The Dark World (2013)
1992
Howards End (1992)
AA Best Picture Nom
2002
Red Dragon (2002)
1993
The Remains of the Day (1993)
AA Best Picture Nom
AA Best Actor Nom
1994
Legends of the Fall (1994)
2001
Hannibal (2001)
2014
Noah (2014)
1978
Magic (1978)
2007
Beowulf (2007)
1997
Amistad (1997)
AA Best Supp Actor Nom
1993
Shadowlands (1993)
2020
The Father (2020)
AA Best Actor Win
2007
Fracture (2007)
1998
Meet Joe Black (1998)
1995
Nixon (1995)
AA Best Actor Nom
2019
The Two Popes (2019)
Netflix
AA Best Supp Actor Nom
1997
The Edge (1997)
2017
Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)
2013
Red 2 (2013)
2005
The World's Fastest Indian (2005)
1984
The Bounty (1984)
1980
A Change of Seasons (1980)
1987
84 Charing Cross Road (1987)
2010
The Wolfman (2010)
2024
One Life (2024)
2001
Hearts in Atlantis (2001)
1992
Chaplin (1992)
1972
Young Winston (1972)
2005
Proof (2005)
1999
Titus (1999)
1969
Hamlet (1969)
1999
Instinct (1999)
2012
Hitchcock (2012)
1985
The Good Father (1985)
2022
Armageddon Time (2022)
2006
Bobby (2006)
1974
Juggernaut (1974)
1992
The Efficiency Expert (1992)
1978
International Velvet (1978)
2015
Kidnapping Mr. Heineken (2015)
Limited Release
1977
Audrey Rose (1977)
2023
Freud's Last Session (2023)
Limited Release 
2003
The Human Stain (2003)
2022
The Son (2022)
Film Festival Circuit Only
2011
The Rite (2011)
2018
King Lear (2018)
Prime Video
2010
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010)
2004
Alexander (2004)
1988
The Dawning (1988)
1971
When Eight Bells Toll (1971)
1994
The Road to Wellville (1994)
1973
A Doll's House (I) (1973)
2015
Solace (2015)
1990
Desperate Hours (1990)
2002
Bad Company (2002)
1989
A Chorus of Disapproval (1989)
1996
Surviving Picasso (1996)
2003
Shortcut to Happiness (a.k.a. The Devil and Daniel Webster) (2007)
2019
Now Is Everything (2019)
2016
Misconduct (2016)
2009
The City of Your Final Destination (2009)
2016
Collide (2016)
2023
Rebel Moon: Part 1 A Child Of Fire (2023)
Netflix
Voice Only
1970
The Looking Glass War (1970)
1974
The Girl From Petrovka (1974)
1992
Freejack (1992)
2024
Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver (2024)
Netflix
Voice Only
1993
The Trial (1993)
2021
The Virtuoso (2021)
2011
360 (2011)
2007
Slipstream (2007)
1993
The Innocent (1993)
2006
All the King's Men (2006)
2020
Elyse (2020)
1996
August (1996)
2015
Blackway (2015)
Anthony Hopkins Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
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- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Anthony Hopkins movie received.
- Sort Anthony Hopkins movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
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| R | Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) | Review | Oscar Nom / Win | UMR Score | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R | Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | Actual B.O. Domestic (mil) | Adj. B.O. Domestic (mil) | Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) | B.O. Rank by Year | Review | Oscar Nom / Win | UMR Score | S |
| 1 | The Silence of the Lambs (1991) AA Best Picture Win AA Best Actor Win |
Jodie Foster | 130.70 | 334.8 | 698.40 | 4 | 91 | 07 / 05 | 99.9 | |
| 2 | The Lion in Winter (1968) AA Best Picture Nom |
Katharine Hepburn & Peter O'Toole |
28.60 | 235.2 | 235.20 | 10 | 88 | 07 / 03 | 99.6 | |
| 3 | Thor: Ragnarok (2017) | Chris Hemsworth & Mark Ruffalo |
315.10 | 378.6 | 1,026.60 | 8 | 85 | 00 / 00 | 98.3 | |
| 5 | Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) | Keanu Reeves & Gary Oldman |
82.50 | 214.4 | 560.70 | 15 | 73 | 04 / 03 | 97.4 | |
| 6 | The Mask of Zorro (1998) | Antonio Banderas | 94.10 | 216.3 | 575.30 | 18 | 73 | 02 / 00 | 96.4 | |
| 8 | The Elephant Man (1980) AA Best Picture Nom |
John Hurt | 27.90 | 115.8 | 115.80 | 28 | 88 | 08 / 00 | 96.1 | |
| 7 | Thor (2011) | Natalie Portman | 181.00 | 246.1 | 610.80 | 10 | 72 | 00 / 00 | 95.6 | |
| 9 | A Bridge Too Far (1977) | Sean Connery & Michael Caine |
56.80 | 274.4 | 274.40 | 9 | 70 | 00 / 00 | 95.1 | |
| 10 | Thor: The Dark World (2013) | Natalie Portman | 206.40 | 273.6 | 855.00 | 12 | 68 | 00 / 00 | 94.6 | |
| 10 | Howards End (1992) AA Best Picture Nom |
Emma Thompson | 26.10 | 67.9 | 67.90 | 48 | 88 | 09 / 03 | 93.3 | |
| 13 | Red Dragon (2002) | Edward Norton | 93.10 | 173.1 | 388.80 | 28 | 69 | 00 / 00 | 92.8 | |
| 12 | The Remains of the Day (1993) AA Best Picture Nom AA Best Actor Nom |
Emma Thompson | 23.20 | 60.5 | 167.30 | 65 | 90 | 08 / 00 | 91.9 | |
| 14 | Legends of the Fall (1994) | Brad Pitt | 66.60 | 176.1 | 424.40 | 18 | 62 | 03 / 01 | 91.8 | |
| 12 | Hannibal (2001) | Julianne Moore | 165.10 | 315.0 | 671.00 | 12 | 56 | 00 / 00 | 91.1 | |
| 16 | Noah (2014) | Russell Crowe | 101.20 | 133.5 | 478.50 | 33 | 73 | 00 / 00 | 90.0 | |
| 18 | Magic (1978) | Ann-Margret | 29.50 | 135.8 | 135.80 | 21 | 68 | 00 / 00 | 88.1 | |
| 17 | Beowulf (2007) | Angelina Jolie | 82.30 | 128.9 | 307.70 | 33 | 67 | 00 / 00 | 87.5 | |
| 17 | Amistad (1997) AA Best Supp Actor Nom |
Directed by Steven Spielberg | 44.20 | 103.9 | 153.40 | 48 | 73 | 04 / 00 | 87.5 | |
| 19 | Shadowlands (1993) | Debra Winger | 25.80 | 67.3 | 67.30 | 59 | 84 | 02 / 00 | 86.7 | |
| 20 | The Father (2020) AA Best Actor Win |
Olivia Colman | 0.40 | 0.5 | 0.50 | 73 | 87 | 06 / 02 | 83.9 | |
| 22 | Fracture (2007) | Ryan Gosling | 39.00 | 61.1 | 143.10 | 70 | 72 | 00 / 00 | 79.1 | |
| 24 | Meet Joe Black (1998) | Brad Pitt | 44.60 | 102.6 | 328.50 | 45 | 56 | 00 / 00 | 75.7 | |
| 23 | Nixon (1995) AA Best Actor Nom |
Joan Allen | 13.70 | 33.9 | 33.90 | 98 | 73 | 04 / 00 | 75.2 | |
| 24 | The Two Popes (2019) Netflix AA Best Supp Actor Nom |
Jonathan Pryce | 0.10 | 0.1 | 0.10 | 301 | 84 | 03 / 00 | 74.4 | |
| 26 | The Edge (1997) | Alec Baldwin | 27.90 | 65.5 | 101.70 | 74 | 63 | 00 / 00 | 71.3 | |
| 26 | Transformers: The Last Knight (2017) | Mark Wahlberg | 130.20 | 156.4 | 727.60 | 24 | 33 | 00 / 00 | 70.8 | |
| 28 | Red 2 (2013) | Bruce Willis | 53.30 | 70.6 | 196.30 | 66 | 61 | 00 / 00 | 70.7 | |
| 28 | The World's Fastest Indian (2005) | Diane Ladd | 5.10 | 8.6 | 30.80 | 162 | 79 | 00 / 00 | 69.5 | |
| 27 | The Bounty (1984) | Mel Gibson | 8.60 | 27.6 | 27.60 | 85 | 73 | 00 / 00 | 69.5 | |
| 31 | A Change of Seasons (1980) | Shirley MacLaine | 16.90 | 70.1 | 70.10 | 46 | 56 | 00 / 00 | 65.1 | |
| 29 | 84 Charing Cross Road (1987) | Anne Bancroft | 1.10 | 3.0 | 3.00 | 170 | 77 | 00 / 00 | 64.0 | |
| 32 | The Wolfman (2010) | Benicio Del Toro | 62.00 | 84.7 | 191.00 | 53 | 47 | 01 / 01 | 61.6 | |
| 32 | One Life (2024) | Helena Bonham Carter | 5.50 | 5.5 | 32.00 | 89 | 73 | 00 / 00 | 59.8 | |
| 33 | Hearts in Atlantis (2001) | Anton Yelchin | 24.20 | 46.1 | 59.00 | 91 | 60 | 00 / 00 | 59.2 | |
| 34 | Chaplin (1992) | Robert Downey Jr. | 9.50 | 24.7 | 24.70 | 97 | 62 | 03 / 00 | 55.3 | |
| 36 | Young Winston (1972) | Robert Shaw | 6.50 | 41.3 | 41.30 | 55 | 57 | 03 / 00 | 55.1 | |
| 35 | Proof (2005) | Gwyneth Paltrow | 7.50 | 12.7 | 23.90 | 157 | 68 | 00 / 00 | 54.2 | |
| 37 | Titus (1999) | Jessica Lange | 2.00 | 4.3 | 4.30 | 177 | 68 | 01 / 00 | 51.6 | |
| 38 | Hamlet (1969) | Nicol Williamson | 0.90 | 6.5 | 6.50 | 144 | 67 | 00 / 00 | 48.2 | |
| 39 | Instinct (1999) | Cuba Gooding Jr. | 34.10 | 72.7 | 78.20 | 59 | 46 | 00 / 00 | 48.0 | |
| 40 | Hitchcock (2012) | Helen Mirren & Scarlett Johansson |
6.00 | 8.1 | 31.90 | 142 | 65 | 01 / 00 | 46.9 | |
| 41 | The Good Father (1985) | Jim Broadbent | 0.40 | 1.3 | 1.30 | 169 | 67 | 00 / 00 | 46.5 | |
| 41 | Armageddon Time (2022) | Anne Hathaway | 1.80 | 1.8 | 3.20 | 109 | 65 | 00 / 00 | 42.5 | |
| 42 | Bobby (2006) | Shia LaBeouf | 11.20 | 18.4 | 33.90 | 154 | 59 | 00 / 00 | 40.8 | |
| 44 | Juggernaut (1974) | Richard Harris | 4.50 | 26.2 | 26.20 | 66 | 56 | 00 / 00 | 39.4 | |
| 46 | The Efficiency Expert (1992) | Russell Crowe | 0.20 | 0.5 | 0.50 | 202 | 64 | 00 / 00 | 38.3 | |
| 45 | International Velvet (1978) | Christopher Plummer | 2.20 | 10.2 | 10.20 | 111 | 60 | 00 / 00 | 36.0 | |
| 46 | Kidnapping Mr. Heineken (2015) Limited Release |
Sam Worthington | 0.10 | 0.1 | 4.10 | 337 | 63 | 00 / 00 | 35.6 | |
| 49 | Audrey Rose (1977) | Marsha Mason | 5.40 | 26.1 | 26.10 | 81 | 53 | 00 / 00 | 31.6 | |
| 49 | Freud's Last Session (2023) Limited Release |
Matthew Goode | 0.10 | 0.1 | 0.10 | 291 | 60 | 00 / 00 | 29.8 | |
| 50 | The Human Stain (2003) | Nicole Kidman | 5.40 | 9.6 | 44.40 | 144 | 57 | 00 / 00 | 28.8 | |
| 52 | The Son (2022) Film Festival Circuit Only |
Hugh Jackman | 0.10 | 0.1 | 0.20 | 289 | 59 | 00 / 00 | 28.2 | |
| 55 | The Rite (2011) | Colin O'Donoghue | 33.00 | 44.9 | 132.10 | 97 | 41 | 00 / 00 | 23.7 | |
| 54 | King Lear (2018) Prime Video |
Emma Thompson & Jim Broadbent |
0.10 | 0.1 | 0.10 | 309 | 57 | 00 / 00 | 23.4 | |
| 54 | You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010) | Directed by Woody Allen | 3.20 | 4.4 | 46.80 | 150 | 55 | 00 / 00 | 22.8 | |
| 55 | Alexander (2004) | Colin Farrell & Angelina Jolie |
34.30 | 59.5 | 290.40 | 81 | 38 | 00 / 00 | 22.3 | |
| 56 | The Dawning (1988) | Hugh Grant & Trevor Howard |
0.10 | 0.1 | 0.10 | 277 | 55 | 00 / 00 | 20.6 | |
| 57 | When Eight Bells Toll (1971) | Jack Hawkins | 1.40 | 9.4 | 9.40 | 142 | 52 | 00 / 00 | 20.4 | |
| 58 | The Road to Wellville (1994) | John Cusack | 6.60 | 17.3 | 17.30 | 135 | 49 | 00 / 00 | 19.1 | |
| 59 | A Doll's House (I) (1973) | Claire Bloom | 1.90 | 11.4 | 11.40 | 126 | 51 | 00 / 00 | 19.0 | |
| 60 | Solace (2015) | Colin Farrell | 0.10 | 0.1 | 30.20 | 301 | 54 | 00 / 00 | 18.1 | |
| 62 | Desperate Hours (1990) | Mickey Rourke | 2.70 | 7.0 | 7.00 | 134 | 51 | 00 / 00 | 17.2 | |
| 62 | Bad Company (2002) | Chris Rock | 30.20 | 56.1 | 122.60 | 89 | 35 | 00 / 00 | 16.3 | |
| 63 | A Chorus of Disapproval (1989) | Jeremy Irons | 0.20 | 0.6 | 0.60 | 192 | 52 | 00 / 00 | 15.5 | |
| 64 | Surviving Picasso (1996) | Julianne Moore | 2.00 | 4.9 | 4.90 | 182 | 50 | 00 / 00 | 15.3 | |
| 65 | Shortcut to Happiness (a.k.a. The Devil and Daniel Webster) (2007) | Alec Baldwin & Dan Aykroyd |
0.10 | 0.2 | 0.20 | 248 | 51 | 00 / 00 | 14.5 | |
| 66 | Now Is Everything (2019) | Ray Nicholson | 0.10 | 0.1 | 0.10 | 326 | 51 | 00 / 00 | 14.4 | |
| 67 | Misconduct (2016) | Al Pacino & Julia Stiles |
0.10 | 0.1 | 2.60 | 354 | 51 | 00 / 00 | 13.7 | |
| 69 | The City of Your Final Destination (2009) | Charlotte Gainsbourg | 0.50 | 0.7 | 1.90 | 224 | 50 | 00 / 00 | 13.2 | |
| 70 | Collide (2016) | Ben Kingsley | 2.30 | 2.8 | 6.00 | 197 | 49 | 00 / 00 | 12.3 | |
| 71 | Rebel Moon: Part 1 A Child Of Fire (2023) Netflix Voice Only |
Djimon Hounsou | 0.10 | 0.1 | 0.10 | 237 | 48 | 00 / 00 | 10.9 | |
| 72 | The Looking Glass War (1970) | Ralph Richardson | 1.70 | 11.6 | 11.60 | 116 | 44 | 00 / 00 | 10.6 | |
| 73 | The Girl From Petrovka (1974) | Goldie Hawn | 2.40 | 13.6 | 13.60 | 102 | 43 | 00 / 00 | 10.2 | |
| 74 | Freejack (1992) | Emilio Estevez | 17.10 | 44.5 | 44.50 | 72 | 33 | 00 / 00 | 10.0 | |
| 74 | Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver (2024) Netflix Voice Only |
Sofia Boutella & Cary Elwes |
0.10 | 0.1 | 0.10 | 200 | 47 | 00 / 00 | 9.9 | |
| 76 | The Trial (1993) | Kyle MacLachlan & Jason Robards |
0.10 | 0.3 | 0.30 | 222 | 46 | 00 / 00 | 8.5 | |
| 76 | The Virtuoso (2021) | Abbie Cornish | 0.10 | 0.1 | 0.10 | 202 | 44 | 00 / 00 | 6.5 | |
| 77 | 360 (2011) | Rachel Weisz & Jude Law |
0.10 | 0.1 | 5.60 | 241 | 43 | 00 / 00 | 5.9 | |
| 78 | Slipstream (2007) | Directed by Anthony Hopkins | 0.10 | 0.1 | 0.10 | 303 | 42 | 00 / 00 | 5.3 | |
| 79 | The Innocent (1993) | Isabella Rossellini | 0.50 | 1.4 | 1.40 | 201 | 41 | 00 / 00 | 4.9 | |
| 80 | All the King's Men (2006) | Sean Penn | 7.20 | 11.8 | 15.50 | 171 | 37 | 00 / 00 | 4.8 | |
| 81 | Elyse (2020) | Lisa Pepper | 0.10 | 0.1 | 0.10 | 163 | 41 | 00 / 00 | 4.4 | |
| 82 | August (1996) | Leslie Phillips | 0.10 | 0.2 | 0.20 | 253 | 38 | 00 / 00 | 3.0 | |
| 83 | Blackway (2015) | Julia Stiles | 0.10 | 0.1 | 0.10 | 225 | 36 | 00 / 00 | 2.3 |
Steve’s Anthony Hopkins You Tube Video
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Will attach Steve’s latest You Tube video…Mr. Anthony Hopkins to this page later today. In the meanwhile he are my thoughts on Steve’s video and Sir Hopkins.
“Nice new subject. I have seen 34 of these movies and 42 overall (my page ranks 68 of his movies). #7 Thor Ragnarok….one of the best superhero movies. #12 The Bounty….Hopkins is very good in the movie. #14 A Bridge Too Far…one of my all-time favorite movies. I have always thought Hopkins has the best role in that movie. Love how he is debating whether to take his golf clubs at the beginning of the movie….and then how he ends up having the worst job during the operation….Operation Market Garden. #18 Titus completes my favorites list. What an ending. Not a huge fan of his highest rated movies….Remains of the Day, Silence of the Lambs and Howard’s End. Though I respect the quality of The Elephant Man…it is not a movie that begs for a re-watching. Voted up and shared. Hope you have better success than I did with my Hopkins page…I wrote my page over 7 years ago…and it has never drawn an audience.”
Hi Bruce, so your tally is 34 of the 50 on this video, and 42 from the 68 on your chart, nice. I’ve seen 32 of the 50. A Bridge Too Far is one of my favorites too, the James Caan segment is probably the one everyone remembers. Oh I love Silence of the Lambs and was so glad to see it win Best Picture, not that impressed with the two Hannibal sequels. Manhunter was good but it didn’t have Hopkins. Thanks again for the comment, vote and share, always appreciated.
Hey Steve….seems like you have done a lot of videos with stars of A Bridge Too Far….what a cast…..we have currently done pages on 9…..I would wager you have even more on your You Tube channel.
1 Some historians claim to see the influence of Brando in Tony Hopkins’ acting and one went as far as to even say that “Without Brando there would have been no Anthony Hopkins.” I do not possess the depth of analysis that would allow me to comment meaningfully on the first of these contentions and the second one seems to be rather hyperbolic. However there is no doubt that Sir Anthony personally was rather taken with Mr Mumbles as I saw an interview in which Tony referred to Marlon as one of the universally “special people”.
2 For me though Anthony Hopkins HIMSELF has always been a special actor and I love his screen presence and admire his authoritative characterisations and the wide range of roles that he can tackle such as those in Lion in Winter, Silence of the Lambs, Remains of the Day, Dracula and even the Bond-like hero in the routine action/adventure movie Alistair MacLean’s When Eight Bells Toll.
3 I am obviously not alone in my opinion for Sir Anthony currently stands at No 8 in IMDs “Ultimate List of the Greatest All time Actors” above even his own professional mentor Lord Olivier, and Wikipedia describes Sir A as one of the ”greatest living actors”. Indeed it is amazing that the Brits could produce such a talented person. [Sorry Steve I couldn’t resist that in retaliation for you gainsaying my vigilante heroes.] Anyway it will be appreciated from what I have said above that this page on him is very welcome to me and I regard it as another another triumph for this site.
Trivia: When Spartacus was restored, Olivier’s dialogue in the bathing scene with Tony Curtis was lost. Hopkins recorded the dialogue for the restoration.
Well, my list of top 5 Anthony Hopkins is a bit bizarre. Despite my love of Hitchcock and the fact that I have seen them, I do not own my own copy of The Birds or Psycho as I am not a fan of horror films or anything particularily gory. As a result, I have not seen any of the Lector movies and have no intention of doing so. So here they are in alphabetical order:
A Bridge Too Far
Chaplin-seen because I love silent films, though I prefer Buster Keaton
Howards End
Remains of the Day
Shadowlands
Hey Flora, I did not know that Hopkins did the voice of Olivier in the redubbing of Spartacus. I do not think you are the only person that will not watch Silence of the Lambs… Glad to see you mention A Bridge Too Far….that is the movie were I first noticed him…..he has one of the best parts in that all-star filled cast. I just recently watched Howard’s End…..and Remains of the Day is one I need to see…..I have a Roger Ebert movie review book….and every time I pick it up….I seem to read the review of Remains of the Day…over and over. As always thanks for the comments.
A great page. The first one I voted up. That is because I haven’t thought about it, I usaully just comment. I need to go back and vote up some of your pages I checked out earlier.
Lets look at Dr, Lector for a moment. He is the smartest man in the room and knows it.
He will still help the FBI not out of concern for the victems or because it’s the right thing to do but just to show how smart he is.
He loves opera, art and other snobbish things like what wine goes with flava beans and liver.
And he kills people and eat them because they are RUDE.
Yet Sir Anthony Hopkins takes this arrogant, pretentious,Serial killer and makes the view ROOT for him! That is good acting.
As for Manhunter, I think Brian Cox portrayl of Dr Hannibal was chilling. He did a fantastic job as did William peterson as the FBI specialist and Tom Noonan as the killer. The Garden of Eden song playing in the background with the blind girl and the shootout was brillant. One of my favorite movies.
Hey ruffridyer…..well it is about time you voted one of these hubs up…..lol…..good points on Hopkins’s performance….I remember when he won the Oscar for the movie…and some people where saying he was not in the movie long enough to win Best Actor… after seeing the movie you realize how his presence is everywhere in the movie….I agree that Manhunter is an awesome movie….way better than Red Dragon that came out later…..Noonan was better than Fiennes. Thanks for the comments.
You are welcome. The problem with Fiennes Charactor was he was too handsome. Tom Noonan was sooo creepy. I remember Fiennes pumping iron to show how strong he was yet Noonan just entering a room his physical presence was intimadating. I could write a hub about Manhunter!
Maybe I will, thanks again.
I agree 100% with you ruffridyer….I had the same argument with my son….Noonan was very scary….Fiennes was trying to act scary….and I never believed it…and one of the main rules in movies….your movie is only as good as your villain…
Nice Movie Page Cogerson
A brilliant actor on stage and screen and even when the movies are bad he’s still worth watching
I agree 100% with you Shinkicker….Hopkins is a great actor….thanks for reading and commenting