An epic start to M. Night Shyamalan's career in filmmaking!

Rating: 10/10 (26 October 2012)

After I saw some of Shyamalan films except "The Village", "The Lady in the Water" and "The Happening" three films in which I have yet to see even though they got mixed to negative reviews, I looked past at his very first film that started his film career known as "The Sixth Sense", a tale about a child psychologist who receives an award on the same night that he is visited by a very unhappy ex-patient. After this encounter, Crowe takes on the task of curing a young boy with the same ills as the ex-patient. When it happened, the boy named Cole starts to see dead people and Crowe spends a lot of time with him while Cole's mother plans with his increasing problems and it's up to Crowe to cure him since he is his only hope.
When I saw the entire thing, I was really creep-ed out by it and I realized that M. Night Shyamalan had created such a compelling film it became an epic start to his career in filmmaking history which is why I'm giving this an 100% rating. The story is well-written with a nice ending twist and has some brilliant atmospheric moments that would not only haunt you, but creep you out in the process. The music from James Newton Howard is great and fits really well for the emotional scenes in the film along with M. Night Shyamalan's solid directing which has a lot of focus with the tone of the movie. The pacing is brisk and it has some great character development especially the chemistry between Crowe and Cole. In fact, the acting is excellent. Bruce Willis did wonderful, Haley Jole Osment did such a compelling job as a frightened 10-year old, Toni Colette did fine as the boy's mother and Olivia Williams did great as Malcolm's wife.
Overall, The Sixth Sense is a classic and it has been a long time since the quote "I see dead people" became so popular since the film's release at the late 90s. My advice to those who have not seen the movie: go watch it before Halloween starts. It is that good!