Review of The Sixth Sense (1999) by Gustavmarkovic31 . — 11 Sep 2012

The very best of the thriller genre.

Bruce Willis is excellent as Dr. Malcolm Crowe, a child psychologist who, after an accident involving one of his former patients, is soon treating a mysterious boy named Cole Sears (the legendary Haley Joel Osment) who says he has a terrifying secret, which isn't revealed until much later in the film.

Toni Collette is Cole's suffering mother, who is just as good as Osment and Willis in her role as the mother tortured inside about the prospect of her son's troubled life at school. She is also still mourning the death of her mother from years previously, until an extremely well-made scene at the end of the film challenges her emotions.

Sometimes hugely chilling, other times undyingly touching, it's a story of drama and thrills, sustained not only by the brilliant and charismatic performances by the whole cast, but by the feeling of dread that M. Night Shyamalan is able to hold throughout the film until the devastatingly unexpected end, which, even for someone who has had the ending ruined by movies, newspapers and loud-mouthed poeple he/she knows, I certainly know this was the case for me, and at the fault of all categories.

A masterpiece of a film, and is utterly insatiable, dragging the viewer in to the drama and mystery with a stylistic touch.