Calculated shocks tactic

Rating: 6/10 (19 January 2000)

It has to be given to Mr. Shamyalan (or however is written), the merit that he has built an intriguing, disturbing film, from a story plagued with holes. He manages to cover this inconsistencies with calculated shocks, the main, obviously, at the end of the movie. One on the finest features of the film I think are the solid characters depicted, with provides the picture with a sordid, pitiful ambient, with its three tattered protagonists. In this way, I find this film rather influenced by "The Exorcist" ambient, which "Sixth Sense" owes most of its undoubtable virtues.