More dull than offensive, Dragonfly keeps Costner on screen for nearly every scene, which pretty much compounds the movie's boredom quotient.
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08/09/02
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.
Reviews for Dragonfly
While the themes are supernatural, and there are some genuinely chilling moments. But Dragonfly works best as a romance and Costner carries the film well.
08/03/02
The movie's "flaws" were mitigated by the fact that Dragonfly hit me on an emotional level.
07/29/02
'Dragonfly' dwells on crossing-over mumbo jumbo, manipulative sentimentality, and sappy dialogue.
07/23/02
A sappy, often absurd disappointment.
07/20/02
Easily the worst film I've seen all year.
07/13/02
'Dragonfly' is a movie about a bus wreck that turns into a film wreck.
07/03/02
El Director paga su novatez en el área de los dramas y nos entrega un producto que puede ser clasificado como mediano.
06/22/02
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06/13/02
the Venezuelans say things like "si, pretty much" and "por favor, go home" when talking to Americans. That's muy loco, but no more ridiculous than most of the rest of "Dragonfly."
06/03/02
Thinks it is being boldly counter-cultural… when in fact its vague spirituality is the very picture of today's credulous do-it-yourself religiosity.
05/09/02
I screamed out, "What are you trying to tell me about this movie?" Just then, a milky white liquid landed on the windshield of my car.
04/16/02
Really, it's not so dire.
04/14/02
Costner can indeed act and be an appealing star. One wonders, though, based on his recent work, if Costner himself has forgotten how to hold the screen.
04/09/02
Director Tom Shadyac makes the transition from gross-out comedy to "serious" filmmaking with the maximum of schmaltz, proving once again that sentimentality is just the flipside of scatology, and sometimes funnier.
03/24/02
... the acting is mediocre, the casting is bad, the dialogue.
03/15/02
A numbingly pretentious project.
03/13/02
Stirs potentially enticing ingredients into an uneasy blend of Ghost and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
03/09/02
Becomes a bit of a mishmash: a tearjerker that doesn't and a thriller that won't.
03/09/02
Dragonfly would have made a suspenseful half-hour Twilight Zone episode or even an interesting one-hour Outer Limits presentation. But as a full-length feature film, Dragonfly rarely takes wing.
03/05/02
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