DIRECTOR: M. Night Shyamalan
MPAA RATING: PG-13
RUNNING TIME: 107 Minutes
STUDIO: Hollywood Pictures
| The Sixth Sense (1999) |
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| CAST: Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette, Olivia Williams
DIRECTOR: M. Night Shyamalan MPAA RATING: PG-13 RUNNING TIME: 107 Minutes STUDIO: Hollywood Pictures |
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Bruce Willis stars in a fairly creepy tale about a young boy (Haley Joel Osment). He has an enormous secret. He sees dead people. Willis is a doctor who must try and help his new patient. The trouble, of course, is no one else knows about his secret. And, no one else can see the dead people. Osment says the dead doesn't realize they are, and that they only see "what they want to see."
The kid says that when they get angry, the room gets cold. A nice idea from the filmmakers, as that makes the audience aware that something bad will happen when they see his breath. There are a few scenes that are quite troubling, but the scariest thing from this movie is its creepy score. Music was always the backbone of some of Hitchcock's films, and it is here for this movie. The movie uses sounds to draw us in before it scares us. There are alot of whispers and screams throughout. There have been complaints about the movie's plot holes. I have viewed this movie a second time and found it more enjoyable. You have to pay close attention to Osment, as he lays down the "dead rules". Also, the movie offers dozens of clues on various things, something I didn't pick up on in the first viewing. Shyamalan was a relative unknown prior to this film's huge success. Now, I think he'll be here for a very long time. His script was better than his direction, but he knows how to fool an audience, especially with the movie's "big secret", which most of America now knows about. Hitchcock used to fool us alot, and Shyamalan is starting too. The movie is actually more of a drama than a horror movie. It's best labeled as a thriller, with a message. The movie's heart is more about dealing with fear than a kid seeing dead people. The pacing is a little slow, but the acting makes up for it. Osment is without a doubt the key to the movie, but Bruce Willis, who does a wide range of movies, actually does a good job in this one. Now that it's one of the highest grossing films ever, and now having 6 Oscar Nominations, The Sixth Sense was one of those few phenomenons in cinema. Star Wars may have owned 1999, but Sense was the talk of the town. |
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