And I am truly thankful for this or I might be changing my clothing A LOT! Because while I might call myself WitchWriter but I am not brave enough for the sense the little boy in “The Sixth Sense” has. Uh-uh, -I pass.
This movie opens in the home of a child psychologist named Dr. Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis) and his wife, Anna (Olivia Williams). They are having a private evening at home with a bottle of wine, after the doctor receives an award for his work with kids. They move upstairs for something more intimate. What they find a broken window and a hysterical young man named Vincent Grey (Donnie Wahlberg) in their bathroom. The whole encounter ends violently.
It is a year later and Dr. Crow encounters Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osmont), who is a lot like this Vincent Grey. Crow figures this kid, like Vincent, is just not adjusting to his parents’ divorce. But Cole has a big secret. Turns out that he is psychic and it is freaking him out badly. These ghosts go as far as to scratch and bruise him.
But Dr. Crow has a secret too. Sorry, you’ll just have to see the movie for this one. It is well worth it though. Trust me.
The entire cast did a great job of performing in this movie. They blended well together. But Haley Joel Osmont really pulled it off. One would expect that a child would be lacking in some areas here, such as sensitivity and whatever understanding it takes to play a character like Cole. But he managed to portray Cole as a sweet, sensitive, shy, smart kid who has this really scary “gift” (for lack of a better word) and is truly scared by it. Osmont and Willis also seem to have certain chemistry together. There isn’t any way of explaining this other than it just works perfectly. The rest of the cast seems to fall in beautifully around. Add this to the well-scripted plot and you have this great movie.
I am very glad that it is just a movie. This movie was scary enough as a movie. Wouldn’t it be creepy to see dead people walking around like us normal, living, breathing people? NO THANKS! I’d rather not.