Worth the ticket price

Rating: 8/10 (23 August 1999)

I liked this movie. It was perhaps not fair to The Sixth Sense that the night before I rented "Seven" and was on the edge of my seat the entire time (if you haven't seen Seven yet, rent it!), so this film was probably unfairly influenced by my having seen an incredibly tightly written and acted thriller the night before. Still, The Sixth Sense is a fine movie with plenty of psychological suspense. I liked the premise -- that the spirits of dead people can communicate with certain "chosen" ones among us -- and the ending is indeed totally unexpected, as I'd read on this site. The young actor who plays Cole, Haley Joel Osment, was excellent in portraying a terrified child who doesn't want the gift he was born with, and even Bruce Willis was decent (I don't usually like Willis's acting, which I think is typically one dimensional, not to mention his trade-mark smirk). I give The Sixth Sense 7.5 out of 10.