A single unexpected twist does not make a good film

Rating: 3/10 (12 November 1999)

The most surprising thing in the ending of this film is that it actually ended - it seemed to drag forever, never getting anywhere. Bruce Willis, after getting tired of standard issue action films, became rather irregular in choosing scripts. After the superb "Fifth Element", I had high hopes for the "Sixth Sense", but, other than the ending, there is nothing original here, it's just "Ghost II - The Mission".
Of course, once you accept the existence of supernatural phenomena there are very few surprises left; anything is possible, since the supernatural laws seem to be very flexible. In this film there is no evident clue to strictly define it as a "supernatural phenomena" sort of film, so I kept wondering if there would be a natural explanation that put everything back in our physical universe, transforming it from the "terror" to the "thriller" category. No such luck. We get the same old story, so many times told. "Some people are able to see ghosts and become scared by them at first, but ghosts are just people who died with their missions in the Earth incomplete, and they need help from living persons to finish their tasks so they can progress further to their final destiny". Please, tell me something new, this story can become boring after a century or two.
All in all, it's a linear plot, corny, absolutely humorless, full of clichÃ©s, with flat characters. Its only redeeming quality is the photography, appropriately dark, cloudy outdoors and sparsely illuminated indoors.
Better see again that old Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore tape, rather than waste your time watching this crap.