The Sixth Sense 1.01

Rating: 5/10 (30 November 2000)

For those who haven't already watched Shyamalan's first masterpiece of last year, let's do it short: Unbreakable is not generally a bad movie. It has characters, a story and a concept, is carried by a considerable ensemble of stars and a director on his way to superstardom. The final two passages of the movie are pretty suspenseful, being supported by a (repeat, ignore this if you watched T6S) decent soundtrack. Now don't understand me telling you watching Unbreakable rather than The Sixth Sense. If you watched the latter one, you will maybe see that U is actually nothing but a rip-off( I don't really feel good about using this word, regarding the respect most people should have for Shyamalan. But any other director/screenwriter wouldn't get away with it, so neither does he.). The story has been changed for the occasion, but that'll be the end of the innovative part, because once you look closer to the plot, you'll find out that many aspects of it resemble T6S almost exactly. The one person that helps the other person develop/live with a supernatural power, the one catastrophe that influences the main character's life, the unhappy families, the hero's using his power to help people towards the end, and those were the obvious choices. And, even worse, U can't help resembling other movies. Even the plot-twist in the ending can't save much here, because it's too short, too little shocking or surprising, a little predictable and actually belongs to the ending of an average crime thriller. The direction is very patient, it is slowly flowing towards the climax, only the climax is not worth waiting for, the reasons are shown above. The shadowy quality of the picture, that was so hauntingly innovative and effective last year, is here simply a means to scare us, only this isn't a horror movie. Towards the ending and whenever the main character has a vision, there are overly noisy (aren't nearly all movies nowadays way too loud?) passages of drumbeats that try to convince us we have reason to sit in the theater and feel thrilled, dismissing that it's actually pointless. The only positive thing i can say here is that i have really tried to watch U pretending not to have seen most of it before. That's really the only thing for me to say to justify my rating Unbreakable 5/10