The Sixth Sense - Grrrrr......

Yes, that was exactly my response after watching th movie. I mean the ending was so cruel I just sat down and wondered what the heck for about half an hour. :D

On a more serious note, the film was a very good one. First of all the script was fabulous. It just let the person who is watching the movie make the intutive and obvious links and assumptions and them break them all in one single go so easily. The plot is kept at a running pace too. If you are not a die hard fan of "Rambo" style action or "Die hard" type theatrics, then you wont be disappointed. The script keeps the edge by keeping the observer always just a bit out of focus. everthing seems so elusive and cannot be taken for granted. Also the acting by Bruce wills and the Haley Joel Osment is very engaging and feels true. There are no forced antics or out of place frights. Things just flow naturally and they just flow with the act too.

But the double whammy at the end takes the prize for the top award of them all. The closure is not a fairy tale ending though the end leaves all the characters strangely satisfied in their own ways but not at dead ends. It again confirms that every thing just keeps in motion and does not stop at any place. No story in real life ever ends like, "Then they all lived happily". The lives of real people will keep on changing and morphing. The beauty of life is that we all eventually find a purpose in all this, a meaning in the mess that we call life. That is what i see at the end of it all. I have long since stopped reading any so called "Top critic" comments at rotten tomatoes. But just for the sake of it I looked at some before writing this review and most of them were good. But i noticed that one writer has said that the character development was "arragont". If he meant that there was no way that real people could have developed things that fast or the writer has developed the characters according to his desires, he was very wrong. The characters are intelligent and not really self desctructive , sucidical and manical people those "top critics" want to see in the films.

So what is the final wordict ? well if you feel like sitting at the edge of the seat for a good two hours and another halff an hour in bewilderment at the movie. Sure go for it. Even otherwise it would rank as a top pick on my list of thriller/drama films.