Excellent

Rating: 8/10 (2 December 1999)

This movie was excellent, very emotional, chilling, and it holds your interest the whole way through. There are some genuinely scary moments, (I jumped watching this and didn't jump once during the dismal "Stigmata"). Its pretty much like Maltin says, "the film is sinuous and creepy without being manipulative." Haley Joel Osment is astonishing, never has a child actor been so convincing since Anna Paquin in The Piano, who was around the same age when she won her academy award. Osment makes the film seem all the more real. I haven't seen Bruce Willis this good since Pulp Fiction. Toni Collete is great too, (although i could hear her australian accent creep through on occasion). Unfortunately, I was already aware of the twist at the end, (thanks to a tv presenter who decided to be incredibly irritating to my country by broadcasting the twist just to annoy everybody!) but this didnt diminish the power of the final scenes, which were both creepy, and touching. Ive already heard from people that this movie "sux" and it "doesnt have enough blood" and "it was boring", oh and "End of Days looks better". Hmmmmmmmmm, im sure a Schwarzenegger action vehicle will be better. Right. Im not sure if the film will get a best picture nomination, theres probably been better this year, but if little Osment doesnt get a nomination I will despise the academy awards!