Boy, does the final reel stink.
Dragonfly (2002)
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Reviews Counted:121
Fresh:8
Rotten:113
Average Rating:3.6/10
Consensus: Sappy, dull, and muddled, Dragonfly is too melancholic and cliched to generate much suspense.
Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins
Genre: Dramas
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... 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 last seen in a rainstorm in Venezuela, where she was on a retreat with the Red Cross offering humanitarian aid. She vanished in a bus accident. There were no survivors and her body was never found. That rich, green, exotic land is left behind as Joe is challenged to persevere through sad, rainy days back home. Joe promised Emily that if anything ever happened to her, he would visit her patients in the oncology ward. Strangely, the children seem to know him, and they say they've seen Emily in their near-death experiences. When Joe begins to believe that Emily is trying to contact him from the other side, his coworkers and his neighbor (a staunch Kathy Bates with a sterling buzz cut) warn him that grief can be a heavy burden to bear. Featuring a handful of frightful moments, an unexpected action sequence, and many emotional dialogues, DRAGONFLY is a pensive movie about coping with death and questioning the possibility of the afterlife. Some of the best scenes of the film involve the hilarious and bizarre Linda Hunt, who plays Sister Madeline, an intense little nun with a bad rep who is plagued by tabloid journalists. [More]
Starring: Kevin Costner, Joe Morton, Ron Rifkin, Linda Hunt
Starring: Kevin Costner, Joe Morton, Ron Rifkin, Linda Hunt, Susanna Thompson, Kathy Bates, Jacob Vargas
Director: Tom Shadyac
Director: Tom Shadyac
Screenwriter: Mike Thompson, David Seltzer, Brandon Camp
Producer: Mark Johnson, Tom Shadyac, Roger Birnbaum, Gary Barber
Composer: John Debney
Studio: Universal Pictures
Reviews for Dragonfly
Now I can see why people thought I was too hard on "The Mothman Prophecies".
Though Tom Shadyac's film kicks off spookily enough, around the halfway mark it takes an abrupt turn into glucose sentimentality and laughable contrivance.
What Costner and everyone else is in constant danger of is spouting some awful dialogue.
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.
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.
It's hard to take the weepy, oozing emotions of Kevin Costner's maudlin new film Dragonfly seriously.
If you're not expecting the second coming of Alfred Hitchcock ... Dragonfly is an agreeable way to pass the time.
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.
Costner's just a soggy slice of milquetoast here -- not bad, mind you, but not what you'd call a square meal, either.
'Dragonfly' tries to gather momentum by dipping into the box of tricks marked 'Shyamalan'.
Despite the film's aspirations to soul healing, its uplift remains mechanical, like an escalator's.
Muddled, melodramatic paranormal romance is an all-time low for Kevin Costner.
The movie is incapable of generating surprise...[it's] a snore-inducing tidal wave of New Age corn.
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