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Sixth Sense, TheIn Mercury Rising Willis played an uptight FBI agent who befriends a disturbed and vulnerable little boy. There's a great improvement here as the normally macho Willis lends a weighty yet sympathetic air to his role as Crowe, a child psychologist personally suffering as the result of a traumatic incident in the home is shared with his wife (Williams). He arrives to help Cole Sear (Osment), an emotionally fraught boy who has prior knowledge of death that frightens him and terrifies both his despairing mother Lynn (Collette) and .
With his third feature after the little-known Praying With Anger (1992) and Wide Awake (1998) 29-year-old writer-director M Night Shyamalan had his breakthrough, finding a tone that was to see him through his subsuquent films. He positions the thoroughly creepy horror elements within a convincingly dowdy, urban middle-class milieu so that this is not a genre flick but a mainstream drama which ended up with Oscar nominations (six, alongside a slew of other nods and awards).
Thanks to Willis' generously supportive performance, well used locations and fine technical credits, The Sixth Sense was a hit, and the knowing but never artful performance by Osment was the cherry on the cake.
The peripheral pleasures within this classy supernatural thriller will more than compensate on a second viewing for knowing the shock twist to the movie.
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