Best movie of the year--absolutely no doubt about it!

Rating: 10/10 (28 February 2000)

(A+) I saw The Sixth Sense during the first weekend it was out and let me make this perfectly clear: This movie is one of the greatest movies of the 90s. The Blair Witch Project, Halloween H2O and the Scream trilogy just don't compare!
I came out of the theater astonished and awestruck, for I had witnessed one of the greatest endings. And for those who say that they saw it coming, I say 'no way!' because there is absolutely no way one could predict the ending to this movie unless he or she was the unfortunate one who heard it from a friend or read a spoiler somewhere.
The script was superbly written (by M. Night Shyamalan), and the cast is great. The acting was magnificent, even though you might hear otherwise now that the movie received so much praise. For some reason, people like to place negative comments about a movie that had great success; my guess is that it's because they like to be different from everybody else. This IS a great movie, believe me.
There are two kinds of horror movies. This kind (dealing with the supernatural and the fear of the unknown), and the slasher kind (where a mentally ill and/or deformed in some way person or creature goes out and massacres teenagers). The first kind mentioned is my favorite type and that's why I grade The Sixth Sense so high, it's simply original and well thought out.
Cole Sear is played brilliantly by Haley Joel Osment and Malcolm Crowe was also fabulously played by Bruce Willis. M. Night Shyamalan did a superb job directing and I look forward to his future films.
The music score, written by James Newton Howard, delivers the appropriate mood and builds the suspense. A great score. I love the camera movements also.
If you enjoyed this movie as much as I did, I would also strongly recommend you to see THE STIR OF ECHOES with Kevin Bacon, directed by Devid Coepp.