This Sixth Sense-wannabe is ultimately both predictable and as choked with cinematic cliches as Costner's resume is with post-apocalyptic epics.
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02/21/02
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
As the movie dragged on, I thought I heard a mysterious voice, and felt myself powerfully drawn toward the light -- the light of the exit sign. I have returned from the beyond to warn you: this movie is 90 minutes long, and life is too short.
02/21/02
Top CriticDragonfly is one of those films that makes you itch to punch the fast-forward button.
02/21/02
It would be churlish to begrudge anyone for receiving whatever consolation that can be found in Dragonfly, yet it is impossible to find the film anything but appalling, shamelessly manipulative and contrived, and totally lacking in conviction.
02/21/02
Top CriticThe film has a solid premise. For them to twist it into such preposterous shape, they must really hate us.
02/21/02
... a lame, unconvincing thriller that fails to rise above the level of mildly diverting.
02/21/02
Top Critic[D]espite a few moments of genuine creepiness, Dragonfly eventually gets its wings pulled, forcing it to plummet down into movie mediocrity.
02/21/02
Top CriticDirector Tom Shadyac and star Kevin Costner glumly mishandle the story's promising premise of a physician who needs to heal himself.
02/21/02
Costner's warm-milk persona is just as ill-fitting as Shadyac's perfunctory directing chops, and some of the more overtly silly dialogue would sink Laurence Olivier.
02/21/02
Top CriticDirector Tom Shadyac takes the leftover sentimental goo from his Patch Adams and pours it all over Dragonfly.
02/21/02
To paraphrase a good Costner film, Dragonfly has a million-dollar cast, but I have a good idea about its ten-cent head.
02/21/02
Mawkish, manipulative and phonily uplifting...a very shallow and insubstantial picture.
02/21/02
Messages from the afterlife unnerve Costner, but the spooky first half is far better than the payoff.
02/21/02
...visual novocaine...
02/21/02
...silly humbuggery...
02/21/02
The big ending surprise almost saves the movie. It's too bad that the rest isn't more compelling.
02/20/02
"Dragonfly" averages out. A wonderful idea whose execution remains inconsistently entertaining.
02/20/02
A journey of unimaginable tedium
02/20/02
'This could be your Sixth Sense,' someone probably told Kevin Costner when pitching him Dragonfly --'could' being the operative word.
02/20/02
Possibly the most maudlin horror film ever made, Dragonfly spells out its scares and faith-speak as if it were lecturing from atop Mt. Sinai.
02/19/02
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