Kid Wonder, Great Movie

Rating: 10/10 (20 August 2000)

Haley Joel Osment is truly a boy wonder. His acting really made you feel scared, on top of all the scary visual scenes. I've only known a few kids that young who can pull off a movie role that required a class of acting not many adults can achieve, and to do it so well. Kudos, kid. You'll go far.
Bruce Willis wasn't really the actor I had in mind for his role as a psychiatrist. I thought someone like Harrison Ford might be better. Nevertheless, Willis did put in a commendable performance, and because the movie was so riveting you hardly noticed his woodenness sometimes.
Although this movie does not have spooks jumping out at you for shock effects, it still manages to put a kind of fear in you that cannot be described. The ghosts weren't really scary, but the setting for them to appear and the music that accompanied it, (and of course Osment's acting) made them something not feared in the normal sense, but feared cos no one wants to experience it at all. Then ending is superb, and I just hope no one spoils it for you cos it's just brilliant.