It will stay with you.

Rating: Null/10 (10 January 2000)

When you see this film, it will probably stay with you for quite a while, and you will find yourself tossing over the plot in your mind for days to come. You will seek out others who have seen it, and want to discuss it with them. If you live alone, be careful; you may have trouble sleeping!

Haley Joel Osment is extremely effective as a guarded and serious 9 year-old boy who is burdened with the secret ability to see the dead. Osment is excellent, making his character seem like an old soul. Bruce Willis is also impressive, playing against type, as the child psychologist who makes it his mission to help the boy. To the character of the boy's mother, Toni Collette brings intensity and depth.
The soundtrack is eerily effective, giving the viewer a creepy feeling of anticipation. I was impressed to learn that the director of this film is the young man who plays the medical intern. Subtlety in movies is a welcome change these days, and this movie entices the viewer to use his or her imagination, which can be more frightening than "seeing everything." The previously mentioned soundtrack, the photographic techniques, and the old, almost Gothic, architectural scenery, give this movie a great sense of atmosphere that one has to experience to define.
As it blends dramaticism, creepiness, and pathos, "plot holes" aside, "The Sixth Sense" is a movie I am sure I will see again and again, picking out new things with each viewing.