Clever film with spiritualist overtones

Rating: 9/10 (3 April 2000)

Sixth Sense (The)
DIRECTION 82% Fine debut director role, impressive and jabs at the heart at times.
ACTING 93% The little boy is the star not Bruce, though this is probably Willis' best performance in a movie.
EDITING/PSECIAL EFFECTS 75% Good all round approach!
PLOT 87% This movie owes a lot to Spiritualism and a perverted and common view (to some) of what happens to dead people as the boy can see them.
There is an over reliance of the main twist of the movie in the ending stages of the film which forces you to re-watch to see if there are any faults with the plot in the first place. Of course you will eventually find faults, but why didn't you see the catch the first time around? But this is also a relationship movie between the boy and his mother and Bruce Willis (the doctor) and his patient and of course the boy and his.........
STRONG WORDS AND VIOLENCE ETC 57% Some moments are stronger than other, depends upon how you were brought up?
MUSIC 81% A suitable atmosphere is generated.
SOUND 62% Sounds of the undead are among us!
HOOKABILITY 43% After the initial interaction, the movie slows down like a snail having a nap.
LASTABILITY 85% Upon first viewing the only thing keeping you from sleeping is the notion of something happening at the end. When you view it again, the movie seems faster as you fit in the pieces like a jigsaw puzzle.
OVERALL 89% Clever film with spiritualism overtones..... dangerous if you watch the film and Satan takes advantage of your present condition and thoughts to appears to you as a dead relative or an angel of light in your dreams or in reality! Should a movie rely mostly upon the plot twist?