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| Movies,
Iain Silvester,
20 January 1999 |
Rating: F5
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Coming off the back of an impressive summer run at the box office ($240 million and counting) The Sixth Sense is one of those films, the less you know about it, the more you'll enjoy it.
Without giving anything away, the story revolves around a child psychologist (Bruce Willis), who takes a new case, helping a young boy with a terrible secret, while attempting to get over his failure in his previous case and a disillusioned marriage. Great performances by Willis and Toni Colette as the boy's mother are overshadowed by the truly stunning turn given by Haley Joel Osment as the troubled child, whose exemplary performance holds the whole film together.
Director M. Night Shyamalan has crafted an extraordinary tale, which, once finished will leave you retreading your way backwards through the movie, unlocking riddles within, that you didnt even know existed. The famous twist has been used before (I won't tell you where, not wanting to spoil it.) but still leaves you thinking "of course". I could hear the proverbial penny dropping in the audience, as all the brains in the cinema realigned to the new way of looking at the story. But don't come expecting shocks and scares and blood curdling terror, as this is a far subtler piece which has moments of Exorcist style atmospherics and endless slow burning plot turns.
Like The Usual Suspects and Angel Heart, this is a movie which needs to be seen again to pick up on the hints and plots you miss first time, which now seem so obvious. The film is like a good magic trick, showing you everything you need to make sense of it, yet holding just enough back to trick you perfectly.
UK rating:
15
US rating:
PG
M. Night Shyamalan1999, US
Bruce Willis, Olivia Williams, Haley Joel Osment, Donnie Wahlberg, Toni Collette
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