Blending the emotional depth of a heartfelt story with the chilling vibes of a modern horror, The Sixth Sense is M Night Shayamalan's breakthrough feature film that's patiently crafted, skilfully narrated & efficiently performed and still remains his finest directional effort to date. Noted for its foreboding atmosphere, brilliant use of visual motifs & that final masterstroke, it's an excellent example of quality storytelling.

Set in Philadelphia, the story of The Sixth Sense follows a child psychologist who is shot by one of his former patients on the day he was honoured for his work. The plot then jumps to next fall where we see him clearly affected by the whole incident as he takes on a new case of a 9-year…

Film #1 of Gustav's M.National Shyamalan-a-thon.

The film which declared the arrival of Night. Sixth Sense single-handedly raised him to stardom and had all of Hollywood raving. The New Week magazine even went the lengths and termed him The Next Spielberg. I just wonder how glad he must have felt, with only his third film, he was being compared to his childhood hero and his reason of getting into films. It must have been an incredibly proud moment and a one he would cherish no matter to what heights life and his films take him to.

This was my third viewing of Shyamalan’s third feature. Any film with a good, powerful, intelligently disguised and a credible twist will without doubt…

It's easy to make this film be about the twist.
Or the fact that there are so many cleverly hidden clues.

Let's not talk about that.

Let's talk about the fact that this is one of the most beautifully constructed and deftly told ghost stories ever made.

I am convinced that Shyamalan is more a storyteller than a director. With this film, which basically put him on the map, he shows that he knows, loves and understands storytelling. It is a shame that along the way, with his later efforts, he seems to have convinced himself that he is a great director as well. It seems that the bigger the budget, the more apparent his flaws become.

This is absolutely…

Hmmmm, the time that M. Night Shyamalan still made decent pictures; not The Last Airbender (holy shit I hate that film). So we all know what this film is about and if you don’t, you can probably make an accurate guess at the hand of its famous line “I see dead people…” The movie doesn’t exactly blow you away, choosing a very tempered tempo at which to transpire. Not much is going on between the two main stars - the experienced action-star Bruce Willis and the very young Haley Joel Osment - but their chemistry is pretty brilliant. Mostly because the latter manages to out-act his older companion as well as the rest of the cast, including Toni Collette and…

86/100

Mixing genuine emotion with unsettling, and even downright scary, sequences, M. Night Shyamalan crafts one of the best films of his career. The Sixth Sense's Haley Joel Osment floored me from his acting talent at such a young age and definitely deserved an Oscar for his performance. Other supporting cast members are great as well, namely Toni Collette and Bruce Willis, the former for her heartbroken whilst concerned mother role and the latter for his calm and understanding therapist character. When the plot twist at the end comes to fruition, Shyamalan makes it nearly impossible to find inconsistency in its script which easily makes it one of the best of all time. The Sixth Sense leaves you shrouded in…