Good psychological thriller with a surprise ending...

Rating: 7/10 (2 March 2003)

1st watched 3/2/2003 - 7 out of 10(Dir-M. Night Shyamalan): Good psychological thriller with a surprise ending. This is a well-told story about a boy who `sees dead people', and is counseled by the Bruce Willis's character in an attempt to do better than he had done before with a similar child. The best things about this movie are the pacing and the way the director moves us through the story and the performance by Haley Joel Osment as the boy. Willis does his usual good job, but Haley is superb. I won't give away the ending because I shouldn't, but in a way I'm kind of tired of surprise ending that throw the whole story out of sync and this is really my only real gripe about the movie. Other than this, it is a very well done first effort for writer/director Shyamalan, which of course, brought about more to come for him.