I see dead people and I see a wonderful movie

Rating: 9/10 (7 December 2013)

It's sad that the career of M. Night Shyamalan went so wrong . After the brilliant " The Sixth sense" he made great and underrated "Unbreakable" and flawed but good "Signs". He lost his touch with "The village" and every next movie he made was worse and worse. Now his name is some sort of joke and people criticize even his best movies . "The Sixth sense" is an object of many attacks with "overrated" and "boring" being the most popular words from the critics of this movie.
This movie was inspired by episode of TV series "Are you afraid of the dark ?" . It's a cross between "The Exorcist" and "Ordinary people" . It explains why the movie is both really scary and heartbreaking. It relies on imagination and psychology to scare you . It's really scary despite the PG-13 rating. Actually "SS" is really a thriller full of many small twists and fantastical finale. Some people say that since the guessed right the finale it means the movie is bad. That's not true (Hitchcock's "Psycho" is a masterpiece despite rather predictable ending). It is impossible to make a twist totally unpredictable. While I agree that there is a stretch in terms of logic the finale is still incredibly clever – the movie doesn't keep any important facts in secret , it's our point of view that fools us. A movie must work on its own terms before springing a surprise. This movie certainly does.
It works as a thriller , as a horror , but more importantly as a drama. You care about what happens to Cole Sear and Dr. Malcolm Crowe . You want everything to workout for Cole and his mother. There are many heartbreaking scenes in this movie – the broken window in the shop , the talk in the hospital , the talk in the car and the confession from Dr. Crowe to his wife.
Bruce Willis gives an great performance against his macho image , Haley Joel Osment is extraordinary , Toni Collette is underrated for her superb performance , and the performance of Donnie Wahlberg mustn't be forgotten.
The directing by Shyamalan is superb - excellent use of colors , mirrors and shadows, the lighting, eccentric camera viewpoint, psychological tension Screenplay is rich , full of great dialogue and incredibly realistic human interactions . Who could forget the famous "I see dead people" line.
Don't listen to critics . Great art defends itself. I give it 9/10.