A masterpiece!

Rating: 9/10 (12 August 1999)

This is one of the most meticulously directed films I have ever seen. Writer/director M. Night Shyamalan deserves most of the credit for writing such a beautiful story. As for Bruce Willis, this is probably his best performance ever in a dramatic role. He plays a child-therapist in the film. But the real asset of the film is the eleven year old Haley Osment, who, in the story, has the gift of seeing dead people. His performance is probably the best child-actor performance I have seen in a decade. Not even in one instance, did I sense any sort of over acting from him. He truly deserves an Oscar nomination. That's probably the least that academy could do for his performance in this film. Although it's the superb ending of the movie that one leaves the theater remembering most, the whole movie was so carefully done that I enjoyed the entire movie as much as the end. Kudos to Shyamalan for making such a great film.