The Sixth Sense

This flick takes you places that sometimes, well you don’t want to go. It makes the hair on your arms stand up and take notice and your shoulders shiver. You almost want to hide under your seat, but you can’t bear to miss any of the fabulous movie. Bruce Willis, Hayley Osment, and Toni Collette intertwine flawlessly together. With an ending that will knock your socks off, ”The Sixth Sense” is best horror/suspense flick.

”The Sixth Sense” is wonderfully written and lovingly directed by M. Night Shyamalan. The film is set in Philadelphia, a city with a long and often violent history; it’s easy to imagine such a place haunted by the spectres of the dead. Cole and his mother (a fabulous Toni Collette) share one of the best, most loving mother/son relationships I’ve seen on screen — Shyamalan as well as his actors capture the frustration of trying to protect those we love from our awful secrets.
Haley Joel Osment is a very good actor in a film where his character possibly has more lines than anyone else. He’s in most of the scenes, and he has to act in them–this isn’t a role for a cute kid who can stand there and look solemn in reaction shots. There are fairly involved dialogue passages between Willis and Osment that require good timing, reactions and the ability to listen. Osment is more than equal to them.
Those scenes give the movie its weight and make it as convincing as, under the circumstances, it can possibly be.