9 Incredible Movie Scenes Let Down By Awful Acting

9. The Silence Of The Lambs - Hannibal Meets The Senator

Objectively The Silence Of The Lambs fires on so many cylinders it is impossible to omit glaring flaws outside some of its storytelling and character motivations. Out of the five or six main (or named) characters, everyone else is background noise to the psychological serial killer manhunt.

But one scene that goes down as awesomely memorable also has a sour taste to it; we're talking about the scene where Dr. Lecter meets with the mother of an abducted victim of Buffalo Bill.

There are four notable characters in this scene: Hannibal, Dr. Chilton, Senator Martin and Martin's number one aide. The latter in this quartet has one duty which is to glare menacingly at Hannibal Lecter behind his mouth-trap mask.

While the exchange in this scene is more focused between Hannibal and Senator Martin, we get snippets of the Aide throughout. It is when Hannibal taunts the Senator that the Dry Aide has to up his game and utter with lazy brevity "You son of a bitch!" in a tone that just feels off.

His reaction is superfluous; we don't need his dialogue or defense of the Senator as we can tell she's already shocked and disturbed by what he says.