Night Shyamalan's 6th Sense had a huge impact on Hollywood. Every now and then hollywood tries to somehow ape its success. It is a almost a genre in itself. The children of sixth sense. Most of these children are good looking and dress well. But that's where it ends. None so far, with the exception of 'The Others' has had the moving power of the parent.

It is sad to see established directors like Sam Raimi ( director of the genre defining Evil Dead I and II ) fall a pray to this idea plagiarism.

This movie has none of the moral dilemma of Mr. Raimi's brilliant 'A Simple Plan'. This movie has none of the attention grabbing terror of the Evil Dead. This movie really doesn't have much to it.
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Annie Wilson (Cate Blanchett) can see things. She can see murders and death. So when a young woman Jessica (Katie Holmes) suddenly disappears, the father comes to Annie when all hope fades. Annie of course has already seen young Jessica's fate.

Keanu Reeves is surprisingly good as an idiotic red neck who thinks Annie is not Christian enough. Giovanni Ribisi plays his usual crazy boy in a man's body role. He appreciates what Annie does.

What ensues is a very weak plot that is so obvious that one wonders why the director would have wanted to keep it a secret at all? It would probably have been more fun had he dwelled into a story where Annie would have had to prove her way through her ESP.

I am still trying to figure out what a young and successful TV actress like Katie Holmes was doing in this movie. Goes a long way to prove that TV artists would do almost anything to get on the big screen.

The movie has its moments of suspence, quite unrelated to the plot, and nice imagery. Apart from that it is mostly a broken promise.