Good film -- nothing more

Rating: 6/10 (7 January 2000)

I really wanted to love this film, I have waited for it to open in Sweden for so long. Unfortunately, I did not love it. I came pretty close to not even liking it, but well, in the end I did like it. Last night I saw "Fight Club" at the cinema, I hadn't expected very much, but I walked out of the cinema thrilled and enthusiastic and "wowed". I walked out, after having seen "The Sixth Sense", thinking about all the plot inconsistencies. I tried to overlook them and say: "Look Anna, you're too stupid to realise that those ten or fifteen plot inconsistencies do not exist. Surely, there are a "logic" explanation for everything." I failed. But as I said, I *did* like it and I was quite spooked at times, but after having seen Edward Norton and Brad Pitt and David Fincher (well, I didn't actually see *him*) in action the night before I just don't think I was ready to accept "The Sixth Sense" as a great movie experience. I *should* love this film, and I know that I probably would have if it wasn't for a) the boring first 45 minutes and b) the fact that I knew there was a twist. I think that if the ending had come as a *real* surprise, like "oh-my-god-is-there-a-twist-in-this-film?!" I would have appreciated it much more. Now I spent half of the movie looking for clues to the twist (I didn't know *what* the twist was, though).
Well, the film is good and Haley Joel Osment is fantastic -- a child actor that would actually deserve a Golden Globe or an Oscar (unlike Anna Paquin). And Bruce Willis was good as well! Okay, he's not Kevin Spacey or Edward Norton, and he never will be, but he actually did a great job in this film. I'm surprised. Well, I give this film a 6 out of 10, although I thought a lot about giving it a 5. A huge disappointment -- but still a good film.