This Intense Supernatural thriller was and is one of the most cleverly constructed films to have been showcased to us over the past few years

Rating: Null/10 (12 July 2000)

Bruce Willis plays Malcolm Crowe, a married man whose life has changed for the worse since a shooting incident involving an ex-patient. He becomes self obsessed and only cares for his work, when one day an intriguing child enters his life.
Child prodigy Hayley Joel Osment, who you will have seen earlier as Forrest Gump's son, plays the child who has a strange secret. Doctors think his mother is abusing him, yet his mother believes his so-called friends are bullying him.
The film slowly introduces us to the Childs problems in a way, which sends shivers down your spine. The child with the hole in his head, the vomiting girl all create sickening images which startle you while u are watching.
The use of music can be soothing yet chilling; the lighting can be warm and then cold. The images which are being thrown at us give us clues all the way through yet subtly enough to keep the secret until the final moment, a moment which I must admit I had never thought possible.