This is the most overrated movie I've seen all summer!

Rating: 3/10 (29 August 1999)

My friends had all told me that the Sixth Sense was an incredible movie.
Some even told me it was better than Blair Witch Project.
So, since I had some free passes to the movies, I took my friend Cathy to see it last night.
The first 100 minutes or so passed at an incredibly boring pace. Nothing much seemed to happen at all.
After being shot by a former patient, child psychologist Bruce Willis decides to help a child who shows the same symptoms that this patient did. At the loss of his family life, he throws himself into helping this boy who can see dead people.
That's the basic premise. Boring, I say.
The movie plods along at a snail's pace, and the lines are tired cliches, ie: Bruce Willis: "My plan is blah blah blah". Boy: "Will it work?" Bruce: "I don't know..."
Give me a break! Come up with something original! The idea of seeing dead people is pretty interesting, and they could've done something cool with it, but instead you get 100 minutes of boring film stock and tired cliches for dialogue and plot movement. The filmmakers even employed the standard "shocking" music to get you to jump at the slightest "gross" thing, things that weren't even scary.
In the final 2 or 3 minutes, the film pulls itself together and comes up with a completely amazing ending that made me not hate the film. It did, however, make me angry for not hating the film, and left me wishing that I had left in the middle of the movie so I could have been left with a feeling of utter disappointment.
In a summer of movies like American Pie, Blair Witch Project, South Park, Eyes Wide Shut, and Austin Powers 2, maybe I just had too high of expectations. Don't waste your money on this crapfest.