What's the big deal? (This review may contain some spoliers)

Rating: 4/10 (21 January 2000)

Reading all your enthusiastic comments about this film... Knowing that it was one of the big hits of the summer in the USA and the rest of the world... Hearing that common people and movie critics (even Maltin) loved this film...
After all that my expectations about "The Sixth Sense" were "knocking on heaven's door"... and it really hurts to fall from there, my friends!!
"The Sixth Sense" was, at last, showed in my country this month and I virtually ran to the theater to be one of the first to watch it. I was very careful to avoid reading too much about the plot, because I had heard that there was a "great" twist, and I didn't want to ruin the surprise. I've never been so disappointed.
The fatal flaws:
1. The trailer was too explicit: So I think that everybody already knew the Cole's secret ("I see dead people"). Then the scene where the boy tells Willis his "secret" (after an hour of boring round and round, without important scenes, with the good doctor trying to find out the "secret"), is as cold as The Haunting's "scares". It's just uneffective and predictable, there's no surprise, actually there's no any feelings or sensations at all.
2. Wwhhyy It's ssssoooo ssllooww ppaacceedd???: I would have appreciated this movie if it had been released last year because I had some problems to sleep. I would have a good time (sleeping) at the movies. There are too many unnecessary scenes and the actors seems to be speaking t-o a f-i-v-e y-e-a-r-'s o-l-d c-h-i-l-d. Without the commercials, and X-Files episode goes by 40 minutes length. There's more substance. And "The Sixth..." is a 2 hour feature.

3. The twist: Movies like "The Crying Game", "The Usual Suspects" or "Fight Club", would have been stunning movies even if the screenwriter wouldn't have added their great twists that made them unforgettable films. Why? Well, because the rest of their stories were great. In "The Sixth Sense", if you're a middle-skilled watcher, you'll discover the "famous" twist after 10 minutes, and it will ruin your experience, because the rest of the movie does nothing else that "almost scream-it-on-your-face". The story isn't interesting, because you already know all that could be interesting.
4. The scares / The end: Two scares, one for hour. Happy end. Think in a cross between "The Shining" (Great film!) and "Good Will Hunting" (not bad). Isn't it like Coke with Corn Flakes?

The Best scare:
What happened you, Donnie Whalberg!!!!????
I rate this one: 1. (It's a shame we can't vote 0) I feel guilty because Osment does a great effort, but the rest of you, voters, have put this film to close-of-the-top, and I think that It has to be placed in the right place (out of the top 100, at least).