[I]t's the kind of New Age fright flick that tries to both scare and reassure its audience, but does neither particularly well.
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02/22/02
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
... better described as a ghost story gone badly awry.
02/22/02
... where The Sixth Sense radiated intelligence and style, Dragonfly exudes a certain whiff of desperation.
02/22/02
The thriller is only thrilling enough to kill the movie's romantic mood, while the romance just makes Dragonfly seem meandering and inert.
02/22/02
There is nothing inherently wrong with Dragonfly except its nagging familiarity.
02/22/02
As thrillers go, this one, with a peskily insistent score, weepy-timbred voice-overs, and telegraphed 'twist' ending, is mighty unthrilling.
02/22/02
In the end, however, a nitwit script, full of pedestrian dialogue and building to a laughable climax, dooms the picture.
02/22/02
There are enough throwaway references to faith and rainbows to plant smile-button faces on that segment of the populace that made A Walk to Remember a niche hit.
02/22/02
Dragonfly has no atmosphere, no tension -- nothing but Costner, flailing away. It's a buggy drag.
02/22/02
Dragonfly isn't all that exciting, but it is reasonably creepy and even moving at times.
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
Dragonfly is not a horror film. It is eerie but it is not creepy or terrifying. In fact, it is a love story and a beautiful one at that.
02/22/02
Dragonfly takes a promising yarn and flattens it with inept storytelling and leaden direction.
02/22/02
Dragonfly has more plot than a figure-skating competition, and just about as much credibility.
02/22/02
You come away wishing, though, that the movie spent a lot less time trying to make a credible case for reports from the afterlife and a lot more time on the romantic urgency that's at the center of the story.
02/22/02
If there's anything worse than a slick, crummy horror movie, it's a slick, crummy, pretentious horror movie.
02/22/02
... plays like it was written from the end backward.
02/22/02
The whole movie is simply a lazy exercise in bad filmmaking that asks you to not only suspend your disbelief but your intelligence as well.
02/22/02
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
If Oscars were dished out for tin ears, screenwriters David Seltzer, Brandon Camp, and Mike Thompson would be in the running.
02/22/02
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