It’s been 25 years since ‘Sixth Sense’ — What the hell is M. Night Shyamalan doing?
nypost.comsaid in his review of the Bruce Willis classic that “ ‘The Sixth Sense,’ written and directed by a precocious young Philadelphian named M.
Night Shyamalan, is the summer’s biggest surprise.”Commenting on its iconic ending — the kind of cinematic water cooler moment that doesn’t exist anymore — he added, “It’s the only shock in ‘The Sixth Sense’ greeted not with a shriek, but with a gasp at how masterfully plotted this superb film is.”The movie was nominated for the Oscar for Best Picture (back when there were only five nominees), and Shyamalan made the cut for Best Director.
But a quarter century is an awfully long time ago. “Masterfully plotted” and “superb” are no longer words the public associates with Shyamalan.A young Haley Joel Osment might’ve seen dead people, but these days I see a dead career — M.
Night’s.With “The Sixth Sense,” the writer-director simultaneously broke out and peaked. The man has never made a movie even half as good since.
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