As good as people say it is

Rating: Null/10 (12 October 1999)

Forget the talk of plot twists, this is just plain great movie making that deservedly put M. Night on the map. Not really a movie about the occult, it's more what you might call a "psychological drama". Bruce Willis gives the most solid performance of his career as a child psychologist attacked by one of his charges and changed forever. Haley Joel Osment is his new charge, a child who simply can't fit in with his peers with a very different way of looking at things. Toni Collette is grand as the troubled mom trying to find a way to solve Haley's problems. They really don't make movies this good very often at all, I don't know what won the Oscar for Best Picture in 2000 but I can tell you what movie should have won. A fantastic and effective score accompanies this most exceptional movie. Highly highly recommended.