The Sixth Sense | | Cast : | Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment | | Director : | M. Night Shyamalan | | Studio : | Walt Disney Home Video | | Format : | Color, Widescreen, Closed-captioned, Dolby, Anamorphic | | Released Date : | , 1999 | | DVD Released Date : | March 28, 2000 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
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| Rating |  | | Date | August 02, 2005 | | Summary | Calling this overrated is an understatement | Content
 | M. Night Shyamalan is the most overrated director of all time. Sixth Sense is nothing but a Jacob's Ladder rip-off yet this movie was hailed by so-called horror fans as an "original psychological masterpiece". If that's a masterpiece, you better start picking up trash and framing it because I just saw the Mona Lisa roll by in the form of a slightly crushed pepsi can. And if this is original, I just saw a xerox copy machine create the most innovative work to date (Jacob's Ladder did this 15 years ago people).
I've seen Unbreakable and Signs too, both the same formula as this film. All Shyamalan's movies are typical sappy Hollywood dramas 99.9% of the time then he comes up with the stupid endings. Pretty much his movies are essentially nothing but an excuse to show some gimmicky twist at the end so the general public (because no true horror fan is eating this stuff up) could pat themselves on the back and say "I am not close-minded, I like all genres of movies such as horror", the same way so many clueless pre-packaged cultured fools think they're into "sophisitcated music" when they watch VH1. The ending sure was the best part, not because it was shocking, but because at that point I knew this atrocity was over. Trying to impress people with a gimmicky ending, that's all this film is, I can't put it any simpler than that. Everyhing else you saw in the movie was thrown in just to stretch this thing into a full length. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 17, 2005 | | Summary | are you kidding me? | Content
| this movie really sucks big time...waste of time watching this..i had a great deal of expectation but all went to waste..it should be cathegorized as a romance film more than a horror one...disappointing. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 08, 2005 | | Summary | Not really scary at all | Content
| I watched parts of The Sixth Sense in English class, I thought it was interesting and went to rent it. While I was at the movie rental place, I searched in Action, Comedy and Sci/Fantasy for this movie, but couldn't find it, then a helper found it in the Horror section, and I was amazed The Sixth Sense was counted for a horror movie. When I brought the movie home to watch it, I guess it has its scary moments, but overall it's NOT a scary movie, I mean, how can it be counted as a scary movie when the message of the movie is NOT meant to scare you: Ghosts can be just as lost as anybody and sometimes need help, so you shouldn't be afraid of them. Tell you the truth, I am a very easily scared person, *Seriously I am*, I have been avoiding horror movies ever since I was seven because I watched this movie which I thought of now is kinda ridiculous but it scared the crap outta me, but The Sixth Sense did not scare me at all, I don't even think it should be qualified as a scary movie, it's pretty much in the same category as those ghost-inserted action movie but without the action.
But the movie itself I thought was well done, and Haley Joel Osman is my favorite young actor, he's fantastic! |
| Rating | | | Date | June 27, 2005 | | Summary | Mommy! There's something under my bed! | Content
| This is the only Shyamalan movie that I found to be scary. It's a very good horror movie with a great plot and screenplay. The plot is about a young boy who sees dead people. But these dead people think that they are alive. A psychiatrist who had a tragedy occur tries to help this young boy throughout the movie. The ending is surprising and very unpredictable. It actually is quite scary and I remember looking under my bed the first time I saw it. (I was like 10 or 11) Bruce Willis and Haley Joel Osment give quite wonderful performances and this one will probably have you scared. I recommend it for anyone who wants to have some good scares. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 13, 2005 | | Summary | 1.75 STARS: I see a vastly overrated so-called "horror movie" named "The Sixth Sense" | Content
| I see a vastly overrated movie called "The Sixth Sense" as far as its merits as a horror movie are concerned. Sure, this is an almost halfway decent psychological thriller with a chill or two, but this movie simply does not have the "goods" or the requisite structure to be called a pure and effective horror movie.
"The Sixth Sense" is about a gifted child who has a "sixth sense" which allows him to actually see ghosts and dead people...to the child it is a depressing and horrifying burden that he does not want nor understand. A psychiatrist played by Bruce Willis is determined to help the boy, but actually finds out something quite dark about his own reality as opposed to that of the child...this part ends up overshadowing the entire movie and weakening it as a whole.
Clearly, the best scenes of the movie from a horror movie fan's perspective are the apparitions and visions of dead people the little boy encounters, however, these scenes are relatively few and far between. Probably the scariest scene (if you can even call it that) is the part where the boy sees the lady ghost in a robe who is quite creepy...the boy hides from her as the chilly air is certainly symbolic of the creepy scene from that part.
However, aside from these images of dead people and ghosts, "The Sixth Sense" is basically without a villain...there is no source of evil or danger that the characters encounter in this flick. As far as its merits as a horror movie is concerned, "The Sixth Sense" is like a snow that won't stick because it's not cold enough or a cloud that wants to pour rain but can't because it lacks the necessary moisture from which the rain can be produced...such is the same thing for "The Sixth Sense" as a horror movie. The atmosphere necessary for a horror movie is present only when the audience sees the deathly images from the boy's perspective, but this simply is not enough to create a horror movie...nice psychological drama with metaphysical elements which are creepy, but no hard and fast substance from which a horror movie can be derived.
However, it could certainly be argued that "The Sixth Sense" was not made for the purpose of being a horror movie and that may very well be true. But, as a horror movie, this movie fails miserably and completely. I thought that "The Sixth Sense" was a mildly entertaining movie that illustrates a connection between the psyche of possibly blessed individuals with the supernatural and metaphysical reality we all so long to understand, but as a horror movie, "The Sixth Sense" basically sucks. I would attach a VERY WEAK AMAZON.com TWO STARS rating to this movie...in fact, my official rating is 1.75 STARS because it really isn't that good, period.
Incidentally, the idea of this sixth sense and psychic connection with the supernatural was done before and much better I might add in Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" which IS very scary and a timeless classic...I highly recommend "The Shining" over "The Sixth Sense" if you are interested in this psychic subject matter within the framework of a real horror movie. In short, "The Sixth Sense" is a below average to average psychological-thriller movie overall and a very poor excuse for a horror movie. |
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