Dragonfly (2002)

Overrated

Boring

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

What great movie. Great acting with an excellent script made for a classic. It wasn't a box office blockbuster, but this movie with give u chills several times, and kept me guessing through the entire flick, and really what else can you really ask for in a flick. Believe it or not i put this movie in my top ten. Any movie that i can watch several times and still enjoy it is top ten in my book.

Dragonfly aims to be a spooky, supernatural thriller in the same mould as THE SIXTH SENSE, WHITE NOISE and THE MOTHMAN PROPHECY, but the sad truth is that the film's structure can't retain the right atmosphere to last an entire running time. So what we have is a film that starts off pleasantly chilly but ends up as an ultimately routine and predictable storyline with the usual heartwarming Hollywood ending.Kevin Costner, who doesn't seem to have been around much since the the dual-disaster of WATERWORLD and THE POSTMAN, puts in a decent turn as Joe Darrow, a grieving doctor who becomes convinced that his dead wife is attempting to contact him from beyond the grave. It's a performance that gets gradually more frantic and desperate as the story progresses, with friends and colleagues disbelieving as they seem wont to do in these movies. The central character arc is fairly predictable in these kinds of films, but I thought that Costner did a good job with the material. He reminds you why he was once an A-list actor, even if ever so briefly.The scare scenes are fairly predictable and despite a few elements of fun with a talking parrot there's little here that hasn't been done before. Some good turns are elicited from the child actors in the cast and there are some familiar faces giving solid turns – Joe Morton, Ron Rifkin, Kathy Bates – so it's a real shame that this ends up as one of those films that seems to write itself into a corner, leading to a third act which goes for the safe and routine rather than the challenging. It had the potential to be so much more than just pleasantly spooky on occasion.

I had never heard of this Kevin Costner movie.He plays a Chicago doctor whose wife is killed while doing relief work in South America. He begins experiencing a series of incidents whereby she sends him cryptic messages from beyond death. Is he going mad or are they genuine? Well, I didn't mind the "real or not" plot element, and I didn't mind the wildly improbable resolution - and when I say wildly improbable, I'm probably understating the case somewhat.But there were two things I had trouble with. One of them is this whole business of messages from the dead - what's wrong with sending a message which the recipient can understand? Such messages were sent to children - "This man will come to see you, you must tell him xyz" - but the messages coming to Costner were gibberish - "Here's a weird symbol - you must work out what it means," "The parrot is going to go mental," "Let's put all the clothes back in the wardrobe" - no wonder everyone, including him, thought he was going mad.And the other was the fact that this movie is, how can I put it, slow. Once I've got the point then I would like you to get on with it, please, and deliver a bit more story instead of the same bit again. And again. And then a mild variation on it.So the idea was decent, the subject suited Costner's earnestness, but it was a bit of a snoozefest.Oh, and the ending was so ludicrous it made me laugh out loud.

Stop with the super-natural nonsense already.Kevin Costner portrays a physician whose pregnant wife dies in the Venezuelan jungle. You would think that the film would just deal with his way of expressing grief and then moving on with his life. No, it couldn't be that simple.Instead, the misery begins as children in her cancer ward begin telling him that they have either seen her or heard her after near-death experiences. He believes this and appears that he literally is ready to crack up.Linda Hunt plays a nun who has experienced these type of experiences and Kathy Bates portrays a lawyer-friend who encourages him throughout all this nonsense.After 1 1/2 hours of super-natural nonsense, Kostner finally goes off to the jungle to find out what's going on. There he meets a tribe made up with women with needles going through their faces. The head woman looks like Celia Cruz and brings him to his baby! They lost his wife but kept her soul! Please. Enough already.