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The Sixth Sense (Vista Series)

The Sixth Sense (Vista Series)

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: I see dead people...
Review: This is a pretty good movie, it wasn't all THAT scarry, but it was entertaining enough to watch. It did have some scarry parts though so Ive got to give it some credit there. 12 yr old Haley Joel Osment plays the main charecter, and hes so cute! This is a good movie!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Super!
Review: I have seen few horror movies in my life. Before seeing this movie, I didn't think that this was a horror movie. On the contrary, it had many scaring scenes. I thought I shouldn't have seen this movie. But when I finished seeing it, I was surprised and moved. I want you to see this one and understand my feeling. Thank you.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A scary and smart movie
Review: Why don't they make good scary movies anymore? Sure, there have been a few great horror/suspense movies made in the last 10 years or so, but they've been buried underneath a mass of horrible movies that passed themselves off as scary. I blame the special effects people. They've gotten so good at mimicking dismemberment and other nasty things that filmmakers have forgone suspense for the slaughterhouse. They forget that suspense and terror are created as much in the mind of the viewer as on the screen. These movies don't let us think, probably because they don't trust us to.

"The Sixth Sense" is a movie that lets us exercise the 'ol bean while getting good and scared in the bargain. The plot is so well-known that it needs little description. A psychiatrist (Willis) treats a young boy (Osment) who, as the films signature line states, "sees dead people". What to do with such a child, who otherwise seems normal, intelligent, and aware that what's he's saying makes no sense to anyone. What to do except believe him?

It's odd to call a scary suspense movie a kind movie, but this movie is not, ultimately, about horror. It's about horrible things, but it's actually a kind, quiet movie, which I think is a big part of its appeal. That and the surprise ending, of course. Much has been made of the huge plot twist at the end that had people going to see it 3 or 4 times, just so they could see the movie knowing what the ending was. I can see why. I won't spoil it by telling you what it is, of course, but I will say with some smugness that I figured it out with about 30 minutes left. But...I'll admit that if I hadn't read in reviews that there WAS a big twist at the end, I never would've guessed it. It is simple and perfect and absolutely necessary for the film to end as it must.

The acting is as spare and quiet and excellent as the film deserves. I don't know who Bruce Willis' agent is, but if his client is capable of this kind of work than why does he end up in all those crappy movies year after year. And Osment was definitely deserving of his Oscar nomination. So many child actors try to act like little adults, or they act like ridiculous cartoon kids. Osment shows the quicksilver intelligence as well as the vulnerability of children with astonishing skill. The last scene he appears in, when he and Willis say goodbye, is exceptional, the more so after a second viewing.

"The Sixth Sense" is the biggest grossing suspense movie of all time, so maybe there's hope for we filmgoers after all. And if Mr. Shyamalan keeps making movies like this, we all have a lot to look forward to.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Here are two better and scarier films:
Review: For those who trust the negative reviews of this film (especially the reviews that mention that intelligent people will be bored by this film), there are two outstanding, creepy movies with children as the heroes that are much more satisfying than The Sixth Sense. They are Paperhouse and Parents.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: I see bad actors.
Review: WARNING, CONTAINS SPOILERS!

Bruce Willis still can't act in this movie, and Haley Joel Osment's acting was no better. "I see dead people."? Give me a break! Plus nearly everything about it was predictable. The fact that Bruce Willis gets shot at the begining and later that year the only person who will talk to him is the kid who can "see dead people"? Doesn't that just shout out that your dead? Plus, if I were Bruce Willis's character, I would have figured the whole thing out when I saw my dead body on the bed! This movie was a major dissapointment (though not as big a dissapointment than Armageddon AKA the worst movie ever).

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A Good Movie
Review: Over all i would say this is a 5 star movie. it has great actors funny sceans but at times is also very edge og your seat thriller.so if you want to see a movie with good actors humor and is sort of a thriller go see this movie : )

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The best movie ever!
Review: If I could give it more stars I would. Anyone who gave this less than 5 stars obviously didn't see the same sixth sense I saw. I LOVE IT> IF U HAVEN"T SEEN IT WHAT R U WANTING FOR? IT TO HATCH? RUN TO A VIDEO STORE AND RENT IT. I LOVE IT. GOOD BYE

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Great movie, badly kept secret
Review: I figured out the big secret in the first five minutes, but I still enjoyed this film tremendously. It's well-written and superbly acted. All involved should be commended for their work. I can't wait for "Unbreakable," the next collaboration between star Bruce Willis and writer-director M. Night Shyamalan, to hit the theaters!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: The Hype Made Me Eat At The Ending
Review: The Sixth Sense, in itself, was a brilliant movie that started off putting you into a very realistic world until the extraordinary happens, and you have no choice but to believe it.

What made me upset is that all the people around me talking about the ending...and when Andy Richter on Late Night with Conan O'Brien just said the ending...when millions of people were watching, and that is true.

However, Bruce Willis finally escaped the Die Hard and bad-action stuff, and went into an odd, real, psychological thriller that makes you think there might be something around there, and maybe there is someone upstairs when you hear a creak...

The boy, Haley Joel Osment, who played Cole, is phenomenal...I guess the Academy would feel pathetic if they gave the Oscar to a little boy. The mother is a divorced, overwhelmed person who is entirely believable. I liked how his last name, Sear, resembles Seer.

A minor flaw was that I would have liked to known more about the dead person with the scars all over her...and the scars on Cole. I liked that the dead people really wanted help, and I wanted to know about the dead person during the audition. The actors who played the dead people were plain freaky, as the low-budget barely-any-special-effects, REAL places in a REAL world is.

THis is one of the better films of 1999, and one of the most intelligent thriller/horror movies out there, avoiding the cheesy horror cliche's (the hand touching the shoulder, the camera manipulation, the 15-minute-long violin screech, etc.) and the amazing amount of stupid gore slasher-movies.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Exceptional thriller
Review: A ghost story that actually becomes less scary as the film goes on. However, my involvement with the characters grew and the end is nicely done. Unfortunately, so many people told me that there was a twist at the end that I couldn't help trying to figure out what it was. I guessed about twenty minutes in. Even knowing the end, though, its interesting to see how writer-director Shyamalan sets it up. Great performance from the kid, too!


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