THE SIXTH SENSE has been around for two weeks, and although it's taken me this long see it, it was well worth the wait. I tend to be skeptical about any film with Bruce Willis in it--I am very tired of him saving the world all the time, but here, finally, he's cut loose from those tedious heroic roles and allowed to just be himself. And he's good. Remarkably so.

Willis plays Malcolm Crowe, a child psychologist whom we meet in the first scene admiring a plaque the mayor has awarded him for excellence in his field. The euphoria quickly wears off, however, when he is accosted by one of his patients who is unhappy with the treatment he received from Willis,

The film then jumps to the following fall as Willis takes on a new patient, a boy named Cole Sear, who, in his own words, sees dead people. Even though Willis doesn't seem to believe the kid, nonetheless, he's desperate to go the full mile to help the kid, so desperate, in fact, you'd think his very life depended on it.

So for most of the film, we experience the various interactions between Willis and his patient. The Sixth Sense is not your typical thriller. It's a full hour before you see anything that even hints at being gory or scary, and the few times the film makes you leap from your seat seem to be arbitrary, rather than integral to the story. What The Sixth Sense does, however, is take you on a journey of introspection, a "but what if…" kind of adventure, that is most effective.

The film has a really great ending, harm of the movie lies in its ending, which sneaks up on you and kind of takes the focus from the film. But it's one of those endings that are so unexpected you want to see the film again to check the details.

I really enjoyed "The Sixth Sense." I loved Bruce Willis and breathe a huge sigh of relief that he's thrown off the mold of world savior. It's about time. I think Haley Joel Osment is great as the kid and I'm delighted to see Toni Collette as the mother, even though she never really decides which American dialect to adopt as her own.

Most of all, I enjoyed the gentle unfolding of this movie that will stay with you long after you leave the theatre.