Starring: Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette, Olivia Williams, Donnie Wahlberg
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Malcolm Crowe (Willis) is a child psychologist who is happily married and living with his wife in the city of Philadelphia when one evening an ex-patient breaks into his home. The following events shake Crowe up and he vows to indulge himself deeper into his work than ever feeling that he failed his to understand the true nature of his ex-patients problem.
Cole Sears (Osment) has a secret which he is too frightened to tell anyone. He is a bit of a school mis-fit and is visited by Crowe who is desperate to help him. After a while Crowe is entrusted with the boys secret.....he can see and interact with dead people. Is it a gift or is he just plain crazy? Cuts and bruises on the boy suggest abuse but Crowe suspects something much deeper.
Fortunately the hype around 'The Sixth Sense' was minimal so my expectations weren't sky high. When it finished I found myself mentally back-tracking through the entire movie and it played on my mind for a hours after. That was when I realised I had seen a very good film. I hadn't thought about a movie this much since Pulp Fiction. Bruce Willis was good but the star of the show was definately Osment who puts on an Oscar-winning performance as the confused and frightened young boy.
There is a good old-fashioned spookiness present throughout and combined with a couple of sharp shocks it almost goes back to old-style ghost stories. It's hard to really say much more without giving anything away but there is a twist at the end which is comparible to the end of 'The Usual Suspects'. Don't miss it.