M. Night Shyamala, I'm sure that Rod Serling smiles at you from the Twilight Zone!!

Rating: 10/10 (10 September 1999)

I think its fair to say that Rod Serling would've loved this film. Trust me, "the twist" is an honest to God "twist and 1/2!"
Honestly, I was reluctant to see this movie at first because I was beginning to think that maybe the reason why mainstream audiences liked this film so much is because so many movies in 1999 were either sub-par or extremely over rated. I was already duped once this year by "The Blair Witch Project" but a close friend of my mine reassured me that The Sixth Sense had "one of the best endings in movie history." Thinking that his statement was a pretty bold one, I decided to check it out for myself. VERDICT: The Sixth Sense is thus far, the best film of the 1999.
When the twist came at the end, I haven't heard so many "Oh's & Ah's" and even crying in a theatre in recent memory. As the credits were rolling, I was still sitting in my seat in a daze. Even an hour later, I was still pondering about it.
I'm admittedly very good at guessing "the twist" to movies because I've seen a lot of them and I'm a student of film. However, with The Sixth Sense, I just missed guessing "the twist" only by a hair. You see, I had a hunch that it was like the ending of a Twilight Zone episode called "The Hitch-Hiker", however, I guessed the wrong character..
I could blab on like everybody else about how good the actors were in this film, but I'll spare you, because the real genius is M. Night Shyamala (Writer, Director and played the doctor in the film). He deserves and Oscar for writing and directing one of the best screen plays in recent memory.

Cheers to you M. Night Shyamala!!
The spirit of Rod Serling is alive and well!!