Boy, does the final reel stink.
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12/30/06
Dragonfly (2002)
7 %
Reviews Counted: 119 Fresh: 8 Rotten:111 Average Rating: 3.7/10
Consensus:
A promising premise ruined by sap and absurdities.
Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins
Synopsis: Lush green aerial photography of the Venezuelan jungle stands in stark contrast to the dark and depressing urbanity of American city life where Joe Darrow (Kevin Costner) works as a doctor in the emergency room of Chicago Memorial Hospital. His wife, Emily Darrow (Susanna Thompson), was... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Kevin Costner, Joe Morton, Ron Rifkin, Linda Hunt, Susanna Thompson
Director: Tom Shadyac
Screenwriter: Mike Thompson, David Seltzer, Brandon Camp
Producer: Mark Johnson, Tom Shadyac, Roger Birnbaum, Gary Barber
Composer: John Debney
Screenwriter: Mike Thompson, David Seltzer, Brandon Camp
Producer: Mark Johnson, Tom Shadyac, Roger Birnbaum, Gary Barber
Composer: John Debney
Reviews
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Now I can see why people thought I was too hard on "The Mothman Prophecies".
06/10/02
Though Tom Shadyac's film kicks off spookily enough, around the halfway mark it takes an abrupt turn into glucose sentimentality and laughable contrivance.
05/21/02
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The undisputed king of the cornball concept, Kevin Costner has an uncanny aptitude for gravitating toward the dopiest projects in sight, but this time he's outdone himself.
02/26/07
The screenplay credited to Brandon Camp, Mike Thompson and David Seltzer starts out with energy and substance, but reverts to time-filling repetition before it reaches the last-minute climax.
02/11/05
It's hard to take the weepy, oozing emotions of Kevin Costner's maudlin new film Dragonfly seriously.
02/25/04
If you're not expecting the second coming of Alfred Hitchcock ... Dragonfly is an agreeable way to pass the time.
01/07/04
The last act is a bit surprising, but just as by-the-numbers, and it's movies like this that give sentimentality a bad name. Costner's run of sorry films continues.
05/20/03
Costner's just a soggy slice of milquetoast here -- not bad, mind you, but not what you'd call a square meal, either.
03/10/03
'Dragonfly' tries to gather momentum by dipping into the box of tricks marked 'Shyamalan'.
02/13/03
Despite the film's aspirations to soul healing, its uplift remains mechanical, like an escalator's.
01/20/03
Muddled, melodramatic paranormal romance is an all-time low for Kevin Costner.
11/07/02
The movie is incapable of generating surprise...[it's] a snore-inducing tidal wave of New Age corn.
08/26/02
More dull than offensive, Dragonfly keeps Costner on screen for nearly every scene, which pretty much compounds the movie's boredom quotient.
08/09/02
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