Beauty found in dark death....

Rating: Null/10 (21 February 2000)

Despite its ocassional flashes of syrupy sentimentality and boring patches, The Sixth Sense is an intense character study, generating good scares, excellent music, editing and cinematography, brilliant performances from Haley Joel Osment and Toni Collette and a lingering quality in its atmosphere. Even though it is about death in dark places, there is a lot of beauty to be found in this, particularly the way in which it is written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan - what a debut. It isn't a great film, but an interesting one none the less. 3.5/5