I really, really tried to like this movie.

Rating: 4/10 (19 February 2008)

But the problem was with the director's choice of inspiration.
M. Night Shyamalan started with what could've been a classic in my book, until i saw the whole package and realized that it was just too familiar. It was in 1999 when I saw the movie with my father and we had gotten into the film from the shocks; Haley Joel Osment is such a talented actor that he truly deserved the Academy Award for the best supporting male role. Bruce Willis did much in this drama as the psychologist trying to help Haley Joel's character, which shows a rather different approach than him killing bad guys as John McClain.
My complaint had to be the infamous ending where when i saw it in theater, I recognized immediately that Shyamlan took the idea of an episode from the Nickelodeon show "Are you afraid of the Dark?" called The Tale of the Dream Girl using the same premise. Yet, the director got a nomination for original screenplay that he never mentioned his so called "Inspiration" to anybody.
Haley, don't stop acting in dramatic movies; M. Night, don't based your movies on TV plots next time.