The Silence of the Lambs is an engrossing picture with no ending.

Rating: 1/10 (10 January 2007)

A critic I greatly admired wrote that it is (paraphrasing) "easy to write a story which catches you in the beginning. It is very difficult to write a story which satisfactorily completes its promise.".
In Silence of the Lambs we watch the development of Jodie Foster as a clearly intelligent, determined investigator. She gets involved with the character of Anthony Hopkins who can only be described as a Monster. Sex and sadism are his middle names. The audience is drawn into the horrible web that he has sewn. And then what happens? Jodie Foster is in an endless chase scene, alone with a man with whom NO MAN would ever find himself. Her professionalism is completely lost.
This ending is so disappointing as to make the entire picture a waste.