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.
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08/03/02
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.
Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins
Genre: Dramas
US Box Office: $30,063,805
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... [More]
Reviews for Dragonfly
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06/13/02
Top CriticBut does a movie about near-death experiences have to put the audience through one?
02/21/02
"Dragonfly" averages out. A wonderful idea whose execution remains inconsistently entertaining.
02/20/02
... reasonably compelling ...
02/21/02
...visual novocaine...
02/21/02
There is nothing inherently wrong with Dragonfly except its nagging familiarity.
02/22/02
The dragonfly is a sleek, graceful insect that doesn't deserve to have its reputation sullied by being associated with this pile of offal.
02/22/02
'This could be your Sixth Sense,' someone probably told Kevin Costner when pitching him Dragonfly --'could' being the operative word.
02/20/02
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
Neither spooky nor otherworldly.
11/20/08
This Sixth Sense-wannabe is ultimately both predictable and as choked with cinematic cliches as Costner's resume is with post-apocalyptic epics.
02/21/02
Dragonfly takes a promising yarn and flattens it with inept storytelling and leaden direction.
02/22/02
It represents yet another failed attempt by Kevin Costner to resuscitate a sinking leading-man career that has descended to well below the crush-depth level.
02/23/02
Beautifully conveys how great gifts can be hidden in death and how they can bear fruit in our lives if we only have the patience and the faith to let them unfold.
02/22/02
If Oscars were dished out for tin ears, screenwriters David Seltzer, Brandon Camp, and Mike Thompson would be in the running.
02/22/02
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
... the acting is mediocre, the casting is bad, the dialogue.
03/15/02
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
Shoot the director, the writers and the star for this turkey.
02/22/02
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