overrated film

Rating: 5/10 (9 January 2001)

I don't understand the overall praise for this movie. I'm a fan of both Bruce Willis and Samuel Jackson, but even though they do their best they cannot save this one from mediocricy. First of all it seems to me, that the movie in too many ways is just a repetition of the sixth sense - the same atmosphere, the same music, the same use of camera. The difference is, that the sixth sense was really scary - whereas this one is trying so hard to be scary and shocking, that it simply has to fail. Look at the story - a man find out that he is really a pokémon. And that's all that happens. Worst of all is the ending which is REALLY a drag - why the semi-documental reports of "what happened afterwards" ? Is it based on an authentic story ?
If not for the actors, and especially Jackson, this one would have been really bad. See the Sixth Sense once again instead.