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Rating: 9/10 (26 May 2012)

Child psychologist Malcom Crowe is one night visited by an ex-patient named Vincent, angry, enraged. He wounds Crowe, then kills himself.
A few months later, Crowe is visited by a 9-year old boy named Cole.
He says sees dead people who do not know they are dead. Because of this, he is called a freak in school.
Crowe, at first thinks he is seeing things, but after spending a lot of time with Cole (much to his wife's dismay), he discovers Cole may be telling the truth after all.....
First things first, this is an amazing film, but it never has the impact on you like it did the first time you ever saw it.
To be honest, I never knew the twist right until the very end, and it took my breath away. It was something that had never been done before, and 1999 this was classed as a Bruce Willis movie.
But as you get older and wiser, you become aware of the massive plot holes that cover the narrative.
How was Malcom discharged from hospital? How did he get Coles notes? How did Coles mother let Malcom in the house? How does Malcom feel about his wife never speaking to him? These are endless questions that could bug you, but you find yourself never asking them whilst the film is on because it's truly gripping.
Willis is as excellent as ever, and the creepy sense of unease you get, is sometimes unbearable. The line 'I see dead people' always brings a tear to my eye, and it's a shame that Osment never really took of, because he is phenomenal in this.
The rest of the cast are great, and the film can be very uplifting as well as scary, and this is the high watermark in Shyalamans career.
Close to perfection.