NOT one of the best 30 of all time *SPOILERS*

Rating: 6/10 (8 November 2000)

As of the time I am writing this the average rating for Sixth Sense puts it at #28 on the database. I believe anyone who gave this any higher rating than 7 must have only seen it once. This film cheats you into believing something, and at the end you are left with a revelation of sorts that keeps you thinking for hours after you've seen it. I wondered to myself for hours exactly how I had been fooled into thinking Bruce Willis' character, Dr. Crowe was really alive throughout the film. The next day I decided to see it again, and this time I realized how so many people had been fooled into this "revelation." There are a couple scenes that deliberatley set the tone for Dr. Crowe's daily life in between meeting w/the kid. When he is "late" for his anniversary dinner with his wife, we see Dr. Crowe make eye contact with her, she appears to look up at him angrily, sigh loudly and then walk out of the restaurant. In another scene when Dr. Crowe comes over to the kid's house, his mother appears to be knowingly setting up a meeting between the two. She says something to the nature of "it's only a 30 minute session." My point is that although this was a beautifully crafted film, just about anything involving Tak Fujimoto will be, there is a major flaw in the deliberate attempt to misguide the audience. If you have only seen this film once, watch it again for this reason, just try to pick out the times Dr. Crowe is made out to be a normal functioning person. The big "suprise" end will be coming from a mile away the second time. Most great films get better with continued viewing, but this one just gets stale. Overall I give it a 7.5/10.