If I saw dead people “everywhere” all the time, I think I’d eventually get used to it, at least to the point where it doesn’t scare me anymore. Not nine-year-old Cole Sear. They still scare him and he’s been seeing them all his life. It’s a secret he keeps to himself, so when he reacts to them, alive people think he’s crazy. I thought he was too until I started to see the ghosts for myself. I wasn’t scared though. I was more dumbfounded than anything else. How, I wondered, are these ghosts wearing clothes?
My snide thoughts were more entertaining than this movie; a slow-paced psychological thriller that doesn’t really thrill until the end. It’s a twist ending if there ever was such a thing; one I was surprised thus impressed by. It almost made me want to watch the movie all over again to see how they pulled it off, but I wouldn’t subject myself to that. It’s too boring for too long. As the kid says to the psychologist while he’s trying to tell him a bedtime story, “You have to add some twists and stuff.”
my rating : 2 of 5
1999