Two-hour Outer Limits with better acting

Rating: 9/10 (14 November 1999)

The Sixth Sense is not quite a horror movie. You might call it drama, but of that I'm not even sure. But whatever genre, the movie transcends it.
I do not wish to spend my time summing up the movie's plot. It is quite simple enough, and if you haven't seen it, you've probably heard something about it, or else you wouldn't be here.
What really struck me about the movie was it's interweaving details. If you've only seen it once, see it again. Then you might notice the fact that Malcolm always has problems opening the cellar door; that Cole's mother never awknowledges Malcolm when he comes to see the boy; the looks Cole gives Malcolm when he asks him "what is it that YOU want out of this?"; and other things. The clues are all there, but subtly woven into the plot.
The acting was very very good also. The young boy always portrays exactly what he is feeling--we can tell, and we feel sympathy and pain for his sake. Bruce Willis makes the perfect psychologist--he is calm and caring, and he doesn't give up.
The movie's surprise ending didn't catch me off guard--because I had been previously told. But it was still as emotional and well done as I ever might have expected.
The Sixth Sense really impressed me--and it made me think profoundly--few movies do that nowadays. See it.