Mediocre, at best.

Rating: 5/10 (11 September 1999)

(This might be considered a minor spoiler, I guess.)
Yet another summer 1999 movie that just doesn't live up to it's own hype. This one was not as disappointing as The Matrix, but it's disappointing nonetheless.
Having seen the preview, and hearing that there was a surprise ending, I was able to deduce exactly what it was. As will anyone who spends 10 seconds to think about it. Come on! This one is a no-brainer! Even if you can't puzzle it through before going to see the movie, you get pounded over the head with it enough to figure it out in the first half hour or so.

Ever since Braveheart won the best picture academy award, I've been convinced that there must be some mind-numbing chemical in the American water supply or something. When the Sixth Sense is called an "intelligent" movie by critics, something is very very wrong.
Having said that, it's not an absolutely horrible movie. The acting is passable, and the story is somewhat interesting. The slower pace is admirable in a time when most movies seem to be focused on special effects like exploding tits every thirty seconds, and it worked well toward contributing to the aura of the film.
But the film wasn't really scary. A couple of "Boo!" type scenes, but nothing that really got inside me that much. I hate to make the comparison that everyone else seems to be making but I've got to say that "The Blair Witch Project" was infinitely more scary and effective.
If you want to see a couple creepy surprise-ending films, go rent "Jacob's Ladder" and "Angel Heart" both are much more scary, interesting, and smart, and both deserve your attention much more than "The Sixth Sense."