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06/13/02
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
Top CriticWhile 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
Top CriticThe movie's "flaws" were mitigated by the fact that Dragonfly hit me on an emotional level.
07/29/02
It plods along methodically, somehow under the assumption that its “dead wife communicating from beyond the grave” framework is even remotely new or interesting.
02/21/02
Messages from the afterlife unnerve Costner, but the spooky first half is far better than the payoff.
02/21/02
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
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
... a super stupid thriller ...
02/25/02
If Oscars were dished out for tin ears, screenwriters David Seltzer, Brandon Camp, and Mike Thompson would be in the running.
02/22/02
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
For feature-length storytelling ... it's woefully inadequate with obvious tactics employed at every turn to stretch and elongate the narrative beyond its natural dimensions.
02/24/02
Tom Shadyac has learned a bit more craft since directing Adams, but he still lingers over every point until the slowest viewer grasps it.
02/22/02
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
A sappy, often absurd disappointment.
07/20/02
Stirs potentially enticing ingredients into an uneasy blend of Ghost and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
03/09/02
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
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
Director Tom Shadyac takes the leftover sentimental goo from his Patch Adams and pours it all over Dragonfly.
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
The movie is incapable of generating surprise...[it's] a snore-inducing tidal wave of New Age corn.
08/26/02
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