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Summary: NOT a Psychological thriller...
Review: In one word: BORING. Sorry. As I watched this film for the first hour and saw it was going nowhere, I had to pick up the jacket box the film came in and saw the words "The Most Psychological Thriller in a Long Time...", and I began to laugh hysterically. I was really hyped up over watching this, and after reading ALL of the reviews on this site, I was really prepared for a real scary thriller. NOPE. NOT HERE. And as for the so-called really "shocker of a final scene". NOPE. NOT HERE. This film was not the thriller everyone says it is. And I can not recommend it for that.
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Summary: A well told tale...
Review: Like a well told tale, The Sixth Sense first captures your attention and then leads you little by little to the twist at the end of the film. A successful child psychologist is shot by an ex-patient who claims that the doctor has failed him in that he was unable to rid him of his fear. This ex-patient, who is now an adult, claims that he knows what causes our fear when we are alone. He does not elaborate, but then shoots the doctor and then turns the gun on himself. A year later we find the doctor attempting to help another child who exhibits the same symptoms that the ex-patient had, apparently in order to try to redeem himself from his incapacity to help the first patient. Only this time around, the doctor now knows that the child's fears stem from his supernatural ability to see and communicate with people who have died. Fine acting by the three main characters. No gore, but this film did make the hairs on my arm stand up.
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Summary: Where is the limit between life and death?
Review: A successful psychiatrist is brutally confronted one night with a patient, an ex-child, who was a failure in spite of the official success. He managed to make him accept his solitude but he locked him up in it. When that child became an adult this solitude became unbearable. But why ? In this solitude he is in contact with dead people who are asking him to do things, but he is frightened so he does not listen to them. This patient kills the psychiatrist who gets in touch with another patient of his who has the same problem, or is it the old patient, and is it a trip into the past ? Impossible. The patient has killed himself. And he discovers that this young child is able to see and hence communicate with the dead. And he, the psychiatrist, is dead. He discovers that the child has to listen to the dead, and ask them what they want him to do, and to do it. And when he does it, he is able to find some peace with these dead people who have chosen him because he is able to see them, to listen to them. He just has to bring to the living the necessary messages, which can be gruesome or hopeful. And little by little the psychiatrist realizes that he is dead himself and that he has to go back to his wife and say goodbye, which he finally does when the child has found the strength to speak to his own mother and to make his mother accept this simple fact, this simple special power. And he says goodbye to his wife, and she responds, in her sleep, as if it were a dream, and he can get on his road to his new life, because being dead is to live a new life. It is thus a deep reflection on life and death and the channels of communication between the two. It is also the assumption that some people can see and communicate with the dead and that this power gives them a responsibility that is so hard to accept that it makes them crazy : the words used are delusions, schizophrenia, and some others. Society refuses those special powers. They frighten people. That's why this film is interesting : the deep humaneness of such a recognition. Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, Paris Universities II and IX.
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Summary: One of Willis' Best!!
Review: This is by far the best thriller ever. Not like most Bruce Willis films but great. Dr. Malcom Crowe (Willis) is a child psychologist. But after an emotional devestating accident, he isn't the doctor he used to be. He gets a new patient, Cole (Osment) and it changes him to become a better man. But something isn't right and powerful climax will freak you. I have the movie and have seen it probably ten times and I still get goosebumps at the end every time. Do yourself a favor and rent this movie.
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Summary: AN HONEST REVIEW
Review: I wouldn't say that this is the worst movie I've seen, but it sure ain't the best. I honestly didn't find it scary in the least. "I see dead people." Whooo Boy! I got shivers now! Yeah right, nice try, kid. Trying to make a simple sweat impression from a palm or something look scary, dead people coming back to life, who look like just ordinary people--except with their heads all bloodied up, etc. "Know the prickly feeling on the back of your neck? That's them." Even Psycho is scarier than this film, and MUCH better done. Now, about the ending, which is really all this movie had going for it: It is nothing impressive. If you already guessed it, you won't be impressed. Even if you didn't guess it--I didn't, because I lost interest in the movie anyway--it still isn't impressive. WANT TO SEE A REAL GOOD ENDING? WATCH THE END OF CITIZEN KANE. THAT is a good ending. Dialogue, camera angle, EVERYTHING. Okay, but enough of the bad. Here's the good. The casting is pretty good. I though Bruce Willis did an okay job. I say 'okay' because I haven't seen him in much else. The little kid did okay too, but I'm not going to say he's great until he PROVES his acting skill. I say we put the kid in a silent film, THEN we'll see how good an actor he REALLY is. The storyline is okay, but this film would have done better as a short film. It gives you too much time to think the ending over, before it happens. Overall an okay film, but certainly not the best or the worst.
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Summary: The Sixth Sense
Review: One of the all time best psychological thrillers I've ever seen!Its ending will make you think long and hard about death and the afterlife.
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Summary: Overrated
Review: Prior to viewing this movie I had read many articles and reviews praising it's subtle spookiness, quality of acting and general atmosphere (not to mention the hoopla made about the so called twist ending).Perhaps it was all of this hype that was responsible for my dissapontment with "The Sixth Sense". I don't mean to slight the performances in the film - Haley Joel Osment is exceptional as the boy troubled by visions of the dead and Bruce Willis is suitably poignant in his role as the troubled psychologist. Also, I must commend director Shyamalan for his restraint in regards to "horror effects". In this age of slash and bleed crap like "Scream" (1, 2 and 3 ad nauseum)any horror movie which goes a thoughtful, psychological route is to be applauded. So, "The Sixth Sense" is well acted and reasonably intelligent. Why then did it leave me cold? Maybe, as I say, It was simply the mountains of hype. More likely it is simply that despite all efforts to tell a good story, "The Sixth Sense" suffers from too much style and not enough substance - feeling in the end like a Hollywood product and not a work of art. . . . . . And speaking of the end. . . The "surprise" ending of "The Sixth Sense" is something we have seen before (and better)in at least three films I can pull off the top of my head - "Carnival of Souls" (1962), "Siesta" (1987) and "Jacob's Ladder" (1990). But who's counting? "The Sixth Sense" is a passable evenings entertainment, not a great film and certainly not a great ghost story. This is only my opinion, of course. Who am I to disgree with the hundreds here who have heaped so much adulation upon this movie? P.S. "A Stir of Echoes", starring Kevin Bacon and based on a novel by Richard Matheson, came and went in the overblown shadow of "The Sixth Sense" back in 1999. Pick it up if you would like to see a ghost story done right.
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Summary: Bruce Wills and Haley Joel Osment star in The Sixth Sense.
Review: "I want to tell you my secert now, I see dead people." That's what Cole Sear tells Malcolm Crowe. The movie begins when a former cleint (Vincent Gray) breaks into Malcolm Crow's house. Months later, Malcolm Crow (Bruce Willis) finds himself working with a troubled child named Cole Sear (Haley Hoel Osment). Cole lives with his dirvoced mother (Toni Collette). One night at a party Cole ends up in a hospital bed after beening locked in a closet at a party where he tells Malcolm that he sees dead people. Malcolm heardly speaks to his wife (Olivia Williams). So how come they live in the same house and not talk to each other? The movie is not trying to make you laugh or make you cry. But it is trying to scare you. 2 summers in a row that Bruce Willis worked with a male child star, that he seemed to know what he is doing. Will there be a 3rd summer?
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Summary: Good All-Around Movie
Review: I liked this movie, and I will re-view it periodically. Bruce Willis shows his versatility here, and Haley Joel Osment is outstanding (THIS is who should have played Anakin Skywalker in the "Phantom Menace"). I'm a child psychologist and, while I would like the luxury of having only one client at a time (which eventually makes sense in the movie), I saw Bruce Willis' character as quite believable. The twist at the end was stunning, even though I had been told to expect a big surprise. I then re-viewed the movie to look for inconsistencies, but found none. This movie is hard to characterize or categorize, as it has doses of horror, romance, and psychological thriller in it. But, I guess that movies don't have to fit into categories (unless you work at a video store).
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Summary: The best ghost movie of all time!
Review: Most horror movies, while I still continue to watch them, don't exactly captivate me and pull me into the story. The Sixth Sense most definately did, and I'm not just saying that to be like everybody else. Haley Joel Osment is an excellent young actor, and Willis is in top form in this flick. He handled an intelligent, sensitive role better than I ever thought possible, and Haley, well... Haley is already an icon of precocious youth. Because these actors were well-suited to their roles, the film is smooth and progresses naturally, without feeling rushed or pushed. I also liked the fact that Shyamalan didn't overuse the gore and ghosts aspect of the movie, for that would've quickly desensitized me. Instead, he placed the ghosts sparingly, at parts in the movie when they would create the most uproar amongst the audience. James Newton Howard is also an excellent composer and the score of Sense is haunting and lilting without being jolting. If you haven't seen it yet, please do. There is a very definate reason it was pegged the #1 thriller of all time, and the academy (in my opinion) must've been out of their minds not to award this superlative endeavor
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