Dragonfly (2002)
Average Rating: 3.6/10
Reviews Counted: 124
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 115
Sappy, dull, and muddled, Dragonfly is too melancholic and cliched to generate much suspense.
Average Rating: 3.5/10
Critic Reviews: 33
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 32
Sappy, dull, and muddled, Dragonfly is too melancholic and cliched to generate much suspense.
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In this supernatural thriller, Kevin Costner plays Joe Darrow, a physician mourning the death of his wife Emily (Susannah Thompson) in a bus accident in South America, where she was providing medical outreach. Wracked by grief, Joe works extra shifts at the hospital to take his mind off the tragedy, but the intense workload triggers his short temper and some careless mistakes. His officious boss (Joe Morton) forces Joe to take time off, but Joe feels obligated to check in on his wife's pediatric
Cast
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Kevin Costner
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Lisa Banes
Flora -
Matt Craven
Erich -
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Linda Hunt
Sister Madeline -
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Jay Thomas
Hal -
Jacob Vargas
Pilot -
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Jacob Smith
Ben -
Paul Gutrecht
Simon -
Alison Lohman
Megan -
Robert Bailey Jr.
Jeffrey Reardon
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All Critics (125) | Top Critics (33) | Fresh (11) | Rotten (118) | DVD (35)
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.
The 'surprise' ending is as predictable as it is a long time coming.
Top CriticMore dull than offensive, Dragonfly keeps Costner on screen for nearly every scene, which pretty much compounds the movie's boredom quotient.
A sappy, often absurd disappointment.
A numbingly pretentious project.
Chances are good that if you loved Ghost or Truly Madly Deeply, you'll at the very least like this fitfully affecting tale of love beyond death and faith beyond reason.
Preposterously plotted, highly sentimental supernatural thrillers
Boring, phony and a complete waste of talent.
Neither spooky nor otherworldly.
What Costner and everyone else is in constant danger of is spouting some awful dialogue.
Boy, does the final reel stink.
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.
On the big screen, the film seemed Lifetime-cable ready; revisited on the small screen, it doesn't even pass muster on those less-than-lofty standards.
It's hard to take the weepy, oozing emotions of Kevin Costner's maudlin new film Dragonfly seriously.
If you're not expecting the second coming of Alfred Hitchcock ... Dragonfly is an agreeable way to pass the time.
Costner's just a soggy slice of milquetoast here -- not bad, mind you, but not what you'd call a square meal, either.
'Dragonfly' tries to gather momentum by dipping into the box of tricks marked 'Shyamalan'.
Gad-does anybody have a really big fly swatter?
Despite the film's aspirations to soul healing, its uplift remains mechanical, like an escalator's.
Muddled, melodramatic paranormal romance is an all-time low for Kevin Costner.
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