Rating: Summary: The Suspense is Endless Review: This movie is awesome. It keeps you glued to your seat. If you haven't seen it yet, rent it when it comes out. You won't be sorry. The little boy is a terrific actor whose deserves all the praise he is getting. This is Bruce Willis' best part yet. Trust me when I say it's worth it.
Rating: Summary: Listen to the Voices? Review: "The Sixth Sense" appeals to that oft-neglected human sense in Hollywood films...the sense of taste and style. Utilizing single position camera angles, terrors hinted at rather than splashed across the screen, and understated acting, this movie raises questions and fears without shoving them in your face. When I first saw it, I said that Cole's mother should get an Oscar nod for her gut-wrenching role. I'm glad to see she has. When I first saw the film, it was the same week that Kip Kinkel's interviews had been released. This brought to the forefront the reality that there is another realm that pushes kids and adults toward unwise choices. Kinkel said he heard voices. Unfortunately, "The Sixth Sense" erases its own valid questions by slopping a tidy solution across the last half hour: Just listen to the voices; they just need your help...Well, that's not always true. Only one Divine voice offers reliable direction--but that one's difficult to hear through all the other noise. Overall, this movie's technical aspects impressed me--and yes, the ending caught me off-guard. Worth the viewing, just don't buy into its every message.
Rating: Summary: Holy Moly! Review: Ok, I don't care how many dead-pans (that word again) talk smack about this movie. All they do is mess up teh experience you will have when sitting "quietly" in the "dark" to watch it by telling you how it had bad actors or how the effects ot storylines were unbelievable. To heck with all of them. Sit yourself down on a "quiet", "dark" night and just watch this movie. I had hair stand up on my neck for the first time since Alien back in high school. It was really creepy and the twist at the end made my heart just break. It was awesome. I watch A LOT of movies and rarely give high reviews, but what can I say? I love having a movie inject pure, raw emotion into my bloodstream. This one did it over and over. It is also one of the few movies that can be seen again and again. In fact, the second time you watch it, it's even better because you "get" it. Trust me...I'm not a doctor.
Rating: Summary: The most intelligent movie I've seen all year. Review: This is the best movie of the year. The plot is great and unpredictable. Every person in this movie plays their part perfectly. The single mother in this movie is the most realistic portrayal of a conscientious single mother I've ever seen on film. Add to this the fact that the message of the film is a good one. It's rare that you can see a movie that is actually scary but leaves you with a good feeling.
Rating: Summary: Brillance Can Be Sensed By All Review: M. Night Shyamalan's sleeper hit The Sixth Sense is an outstanding surrealstic supernatural character study that showcases unusually restrained and effective acting by Bruce Willis as a dedicated child psychologist who after receiving an award for his superb work in his field gets an unexpected visit by a previous patient who shots Willis and then turns his gun on himself. This traumatic event starts a downward spiral in Willis's life that leaves him with nothing but his work with a troubled young child. Haley Joel Osment, in an Oscar caliber performance, plays an emotionally distressed boy who is blessed or cursed with the ability to see and interact with the spirits of the dead. Osment's star-making performance shines with more passionate human emotion and authenticfear than any child performance since Linda Blair in the Exorcist (1973). What makes this film drastically different than the convential horror or suspence film, is that this film takes itself seriously by allowing the characters, plot, and locale to gradually build to where the audience feels as if boys like Osment actually due exist somewhere in America. The Sixth Sense will be remembered in years to come as an atmospheric suspence classic that cleverly dealt wih its subject honestly enough to make itself feel fresh and engaging everytime you watch it.
Rating: Summary: yawn. Review: This movie was not very good at all.Things aren't explained. The acting isnt that great. It sure as hell isnt scary. If you like after school specials, this is right up your alley. Totally cheesy. Dripping with gooey senitments of "ahhh, the little boy is SO cute and such a GREAT actor." The twist isnt all that its supposed to be. In fact, the last half hour is more like an episode of Full House than it is a horror film. STAY AWAY.
Rating: Summary: Be prepared to be on the Edge of your seat Review: This would have to me one of the best movies I have seen in a long while. The twists and turns this movie has blows your mind and will leave you talking about it long after the credits have rolled. (Haley Joel Osment) the little boy who's eerie line "I see dead people" is one of the best child actors of today. His portrail of what we assume to be a very confussed and haunted little boy is magnificent. And Bruce Willis what can I say, another fantasticly played role. Don't assume anything, assume everything and anything can and will happen in this movie. You will be surprised.
Rating: Summary: The Best! Review: I had the opportunity to view "The Sixth Sense" not in the movie theater but while staying in a hotel overnight for a business trip. My co-worker and I sat perfectly still without conversing the entire time - it was so rivoting! We didn't want to miss a thing! The ending was the best and not at all what we expected. The movie was so good that I wanted to watch it again once I got home. Unfortunately, that wasn't to be - it wasn't out on video yet.
Rating: Summary: soft centered, mushy and overly sentimental non horror film Review: not at all a bad film by any accounts one seriously wonders why it has managed to become the phenomenon that it has. For what is supposedly a horror film this has no tension or element of building up to a climax at all. Its a pretty lumbering, slow moving effort admittedly beautifully shot by Tak Fujimoto in hues that the director sort of borrowed from The Exorcist. The film is shot in cold colours with a total blackout on the softer warmer reds, yellows and oranges to exude any warmth at all. The movie does therefor manage to evoke a feeling of cold claminess due to the way it has been shot. Bruce Willis is reasonable as the Dr. but hardly the rave performance that people have been talking about. Basically he speaks in a soft tone and avoids the usual cuss words that are associated with him which doesnt constitute magnificent acting, just adequate acting. The child actor steals the film with a very sincere performance. He carries the film on his little shoulders and does a highly impressive job. Was he better than Tatum O'Neal was in Paper Moon? Doubtful despite the roles being so very different. The director mentioned Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist as his major influences but his own movie is not nearly as frightening as either of those two were. Clearly people have gone back in droves to watch the film 'once again'so that they can look for clues that pointed to the final twist. A well made, reasonably absorbing tale of the supernatural that isn't as gripping,absorbing or as frightening as it was touted to be. What we would term a 'mushy, soft centered, horror-melodrama'unworthy of the hullabaloo and what of the Oscar nominations for Best Film and even Best Actess. Overrated? We think so. Also a horror film that will dissappoint true horror fans as it totally lacks any true element of 'fright'. The Sixth Sense is not a "scary movie" its more a gushing, sentimental drama for which you might need a couple of tissues to wipe away the tears!
Rating: Summary: The Sixth Sense is an Excellent Horror Suspense Thriller Review: Bruce Willis stars along side the outstanding child actor Haley-Joel Osment in this truly scary thriller that will twist your mind around. Set in Philadelphia the sixth sense explores the supernatural ability of a child to see the dead and how his sense leaves even the star of the movie clueless as to how deep things go. A must see for all.
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