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.
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
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
Now I can see why people thought I was too hard on "The Mothman Prophecies".
06/10/02
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
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
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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