A bit overrated but still solid...Possible SPOILER

Rating: 7/10 (30 August 1999)

Possible SPOILERS included!!
Although I enjoyed this film, I feel it wouldn't have worked half as well without the casting of Haley Joel Osment and Toni Collette. They definitely deserve Oscar nominations. For me, the movie had a few high points, especially a late, emotional scene between Cole and his mother in a car, but I felt the story could have been told better, and that the writer/director kept too much information "secret" for too long, in order to make the twist ending work. The ghostly visitations were scary at first- especially the initial one by the woman in the robe-- but then became kind of cheap and "fake" to me. And I felt that any actor could have played the Bruce Willis part, that his character wasn't as well written as it could have been. Still, a solid film 7/10.