It makes the Sixth Sense look like a masterpiece

Rating: Null/10 (28 November 2000)

I customarily go to see movies with low expectations. I was neither impressed nor disappointed. The ending was novel but came as a complete surprise. In the Sixth Sense the surprise ending was cleverly and subtlely forshadowed. This movie might have been intended to be a thriller, or mystery, or action hero flick but it turned out to be a character drama of some sort. Even then the characters were pretty shallowly portrayed. Help me out here. what did I miss?