Good enough to see once, but will it become a classic? (Last paragraph: possibly spoiler)

Rating: 7/10 (27 January 2002)

For me this one is a ghost story in the most traditional way: it creates a frightening atmosphere, there are few very well set shock effects without any blood/gore. The story is quite good, but could have been asking more questions (and some of them being answered).
After seeing a movie I ask myself mostly the same key questions: Did I like it (and why/why not)? Was it so good that I would want to see it again? Can I recommend it? Was there something new/original in this film? Yes, overall I liked it and I can recommend it, it is worth looking. I would watch it again, but only after a longer period of time and not in cinema (although the surround sound effects were really impressive). Maybe it is not quite fair, but the similarity to "the sixth sense" is close at hand. Compared to "the sixth sense" this one loses a bit, and not only because I saw "the sixth sense" first. There were not enough new things to make it a classic of the genre. Unfortunately I could not sympathize so closely with the characters as I did in "the sixth sense".

! Warning: possibly spoiler ahead! I think the story is incomplete in some ways: for example in the end the question "why did Grace do it?" comes up, but there is no hint of an explanation ("crazy" is not satisfying enough) and I could not detect a sufficient motivation for it in her acting before. But I see this as a lack in the script, not in the acting of Nicole Kidman.