The Sixth Sense (Collector's Edition Series)
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Movie Reviews of The Sixth Sense (Collector's Edition Series)
Movie Review: I'm not one to watch a movie twice...
Summary: 5 Stars
...but I had to watch this one again, right afterward, because I needed to go back and watch for clues.
Honestly, and I won't give away the 'ah ha!' moment, but I knew that he was... well, you know, what he was. What I didn't get was how that was possible, or how the interaction with the others that I saw... so I had to go back and watch the movie AGAIN, just to make sure there were no errors in the filming of it.
Sure enough, I found none that I could call an error, and was totally blown away with how this was filmed.
I am a writer, and I also adapt novels for scripts, and when something like this comes along, that something that just totally grabs me and says, "This is something special... this is not the ordinary..." well, I am impressed.
I aspire to write something that can really AH HA! someone in this way.
I recommend the movie, highly.
Movie Review: Excellent Wonderful Film!
Summary: 5 Stars
Production and cast were flawless. This is a very intelligent and well-honed production. No one could have performed this role better than did Haley Joel Osment. Bruce Willis was superb! Watch this film from start to finish. Yes, you will enjoy this film!Movie Review: Shyamalan
Summary: 4 Stars
{My review of THE VILLAGE mentions THE SIXTH SENSE more than it does THE VILLAGE, so here it is.}
I don't really want to talk a lot about this movie because I could spoil the effect. Instead, I'll talk about this filmmaker's first movie. THE SIXTH SENSE, also by M. Night Shyamalan. I first saw it in December 1999, on a 20-hour flight from Chicago to Hong Kong. My only flight out of the USA. The film really pulled me in, which I suspect is particularly difficult on an airplane.
Then, the ending. Based on the article you just read, we can say that some viewers weren't surprised. Me, I was blown the heck away and wanted to see it again. Years later I finally did. I taught movie classes, this is a film I chose, and I saw it about a dozen times, fully aware of the ending. It had a bit more going for it than that.
My only complaint is with people who think Bruce Willis was the star. The star is Haley Joel Osment! I may have missed out on "the surprise ending" because I was watching the kid instead of the shrink. Bruce Willis could probably star in a few more movies after he died and we'd never notice. But I digress.
THE VILLAGE is about a pilgrim-style village. Some place quaint, rural, close knit and low tech. Nobody from the village goes into the surrounding woods lest they encounter Those We Do Not Speak Of. The acting was flawless and the scenery most certainly created a mood. Shyamalan is a masterful writer, director and producer. But I had trouble caring about what happened to his characters.
That could've been my fault. Saturday morning at 8, Jan was working, and my goal for the day was to pack for our impending move but I was too drained to begin. The neighbor had loaned us this DVD back in February, so I figured watching it and returning it to him was a good start.
(The same bad attitude that I brought to THE SIXTH SENSE, right? One of these days I'm going to watch a Shyamalan movie in the right frame of mind.)
"The ending." How would you like to be a filmmaker judged solely on "the ending?" In the case of THE VILLAGE, it worked for me. I thought about this film for days after seeing it.
Actually, I was trying to decide what to write in this review. How about this?
"Shyamalan is a filmmaker of bold originality surviving in a commercialized medium."
That's a good thing, no matter what your opinion of each individual film is. I believe some critics are panning him, but I'm not panning this one. I'm glad I saw it. I've missed a few films between THE SIXTH SENSE and THE VILLAGE, and there will be more after THE VILLAGE. I'll watch them all.
Movie Review: Ghost Story
Summary: 5 Stars
M. Night Shymalan's 'The Sixth Sense' is one of his two best movies. The skill by which the development and resolution of this bizarre and chilling classic make it a modern landmark. Just by this movie alone, Night established himself as Hitchcock's successor.
To describe anything more than a bare-bones rendering of the plot would be irresponsible, but here it goes... Malcolm Crow (Bruce Willis) celebrates with his wife a recent award achieved helping counsel disturbed children. Soon he meets up with the weaknesses of his past and must suffer the consequences. For the rest of the movie he has to make it all up with a new client, Cole (Haley Joel Osment) and balance his desire to make his wife his main priority. The juggle isn't easy, and he falters, but is honest, in both attempts to make up mistakes for his past. The causality of another dimension presented is disturbing, yet fascinating.
The tension of the story is counterbalanced with a heart that makes more than one plot accessible and enthralling. The performances are superb with arguably Willis' best ever. Osment, for his part, plays a prodigy as a prodigy in what has to be one of the best (if not "the" best) childhood performances on film. The supporting cast is remarkable as well. Perhaps critics have given 'The Sixth Sense' grudging praise, for it means to unveil the supernatural in a way that is meant to mirror the real world in an unflattering way. (Psychology is rendered at least overrated.) Shymalan is effective like few directors are with a film that is edited for every second to wrap around the other expertly. I see talented people...
Movie Review: "Shyamalan's best film..."
Summary: 5 Stars
"The Sixth Sense" is the 3rd feature by writer/director M. Night Shyamalan, most people know it as his first seeing as it's the one that put him on the map. It was after this film that people began to proclaim Shyamalan "The next Spielberg, or Hitchkock". And rightly so as this is easily shyamalan's best film; don't get me wrong, I have enjoyed all of Shyamalan's films; the underrated super-hero thriller "Unbreakable", the flawed but very frightening alien thriller "Signs" , the VERY misunderstood and misadvertised dramatic-thriller "The Village", & even his latest outing: the egotistical bomb "Lady in the Water". Yes, Shyamalan is something but unfortunately he seems unable to take criticisms and full of his own ideas. But that is neither here nor there; "The 6th sense" is Shyamalan's best film; it is chilling, haunting, moving, heart breaking, and shocking. It features a terrific Bruce Willis trying to help loner child Cole (an amazing Haley-Joel Osment in an oscar nominated performance), little does Malcom(willis) know of what truly haunts young Cole, at the same time, cole's struggling single mother (the always phenomenal Toni Collette) attempts to connect with her distanced son. While trying to help young Cole, malcom has no idea of the dark secret cole harbors and the secret he'll learn about himself as cole's is reavealed... The film concludes with one of the most shocking twists ever filmed. It is scary, sad & ultimately nerve-shattering. The film plays upon our emotions and never cheats them, with actors who exact real and heartfelt portrayels of damaged characters. Shyamalan tells a story of shock, suspense, sadness, and spirituality. "the 6th sense" is Shyamalan's masterpiece and wihout a doubt one of my favorite films of all time. -Alex Barone