Scary, but flawed

Rating: Null/10 (14 April 2001)

At the risk of sounding corny, the Sixth Sense is one of the spookiest movies I have seen for a long time. It aren't disembodied, knife wielding teenage slashers that scare me - Scream (1,2,3), I Know What You Did Last Summer (1,2), or even Michael Myers or Jason or Freddy back in the day left me cold. The Sixth Sense succeeds, because it mainly (not exclusively) uses eerieness, isolation and a bone deep sense of loneliness as it's main tools. Also, it asks: how do we really know we're alive? The acting is first rate, from Toni Colette as Cole's mom and Haley Joel Osment as Cole, the acting is very natural, believable. There's not a bad performance in it. Also, Donnie Wahlberg was totally unrecognizable.
The plot twist at the end, is made even more intrigueing, because it makes you doubt who else, other than Willis, is in the same position. Cole? Cole's mom? However, this doesn't work because of inconsistencies throughout the movie, which is a pity, as the movie would have been even scarier because of it (I hope this is cryptic enough).