November 1, 2013 by

This review is spoiler-free! Although you've probably already heard the ending.

Most people agree that The Sixth Sense is M. Night Shyamalan's best movie. Given how bad his recent movies have been, it's surprising how good his older movies were. In other words, Shyamalan is Tim Burton.

The Sixth Sense was released in 1999, and it was his first big movie. It is a horror/drama film about a kid with a strange power, a "sixth sense" (although people actually have more than six senses...but whatever). The Sixth Sense is a legitimately scary movie, even about 14 years later. The jump scares get a little annoying at times, but they aren't nearly as bad as, say, After Earth.

The main reason I like this movie is that I already knew the ending before I started watching. It is easily the most spoiled ending of all time, so I had heard it literally dozens of times before I started watching. However, if anything it made the movie better. I couldn't even figure out how the ending made any sense until most of the way through the movie. In my experience, if a movie can be "spoiled", it is not a good movie. In other words, if a movie can be completely ruined by giving away the last few minutes, the movie was probably not worth watching in the first place. The Sixth Sense is not like that. Despite knowing how the last few minutes would be, the movie was captivating, had great acting even from a little kid, and pretty disturbing.

Honestly, I didn't like how the movie ended. It felt abrupt and without any real resolution. Again though, the ending is not nearly as important as the rest of the movie to me.

The Sixth Sense is the first Shyamalan movie I've seen that was actually scary rather than only throwing jump scares at the audience. I am giving it 8.2/10.

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