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Summary: Its more a comedy than a supernatural thriller!
Review: This has been one of the worst movies of the year 2002, and its also one of the mosr medicore supernatural thrillers I've seen! The plot is so fantasticly ridiculous and Kevin Costner proves he can't act. The ending of the story is as absurde as watching this movie. Please if you don't have nothing else to watch, still don't watch this!
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Summary: OH OH.....
Review: Kevin Costner is a grieving widower who believes his deceased wife is trying to contact him. Supernatural drama from the director of Patch Adams is pretty dull and silly in excution, with some good ideas but mostly poorly excuted. The finale is surprisingly pretty good, with a twist ending that actually worksm but can't make up for everything else that's so lackuster. Costner's okay here, acting the same way he usually does in all his films.
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Summary: I'm dancing with ghosts, you too?
Review: Sappy with out the emotional conection to the characters, weak plot with loose ends, B-rated shock scenes and bad characters. The only good is Linda Hunt as a creepy nun in search of children with after life experiences is your idea entertainment. ...
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Summary: Not as good as I expected it will be
Review: Ever since it hit pay dirt with "Ghost" back in the summer of 1990, Hollywood has been fascinated with tales about dead people attemping to contact their grieving loved ones from beyond the grave. The latest varitation on the theme, afilm called 'Dragonfly' turns out to be one of the sappiest entries in the genre. This movie was truly bad with bad actors and a bad storytelling. The reason I give this movie 2 stars is, because the showdown is great.
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Summary: So bad - its (almost) good
Review: I wanted to like Dragonfly. The premise was intriguing, at least for those who appreciate paranormal storylines, and it seemed as though everything would fall satisfying into place. Unfortunately, the "twist" at the end undid every good thing the filmmakers had already established. I don't require a film to be believable-that seems to miss the point of the medium's capabilities altogether. However, I destet mediocrity. And Dragonfly is medicore. There are a few good thrills here, but the end is so maddening that all the good points that came before are quickly forgotten. I found Dragonfly a waste even as a rental.
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Summary: Boy, did this movie [stink]
Review: I usually like most of the Costner films, that the critics hate, but this is one truly silly movie. The pacing was so slow you could knit a sweater between scenes and not miss anything. This is a script that purports to be about faith. I think, the only faith involved is the viewer's in believing it's worth the price and it is not. This movie is unwatchable!
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Summary: "Ghost" - Lite
Review: The posters for "Dragonfly" pose this question: If someone you love dies..are they gone forever? I suppose it's a rhetorical question because, whenever a movie asks such a question, its answer is invariably "No way!" Otherwise, there would be no movie.There is the hope/dream/belief in almost all mankind that there is something beyond life as we know it. But, I suspect that, if anyone called you from the beyond the way Kevin Costner's dead wife does in "Dragonfly", you'd wind up in a mental institution before you found out what she was trying to reveal is kind of neat. Too bad the movie's makers felt it neccessary to resort to obvious and pedestrian storytelling. Sadly, "Dragonfly" does nothing to revive the flagging career of Mr. Costner, who is entirely wrong for the role. He can be a rather good actor, and I hope his fortunes turn in the near future. In the meantime, he needs to avoid any script that mentions dragonflies.
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Summary: Bad Movie
Review: Excruciating to have to sit through, at the end of the day Costner is just a world class bore, whilst the rest of the movie is simply embarrasing at best.
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Summary: Nice ending, but that can't make up for anything else.
Review: "Dragonfly," for all its attempts at touching our hearts and our hidden fears, is little more than director Tom Shadyac's brain-numbing recipe that essentially tosses elements of "The Sixth Sense," "The Others," "The Haunting," and "Angel Eyes," into a blender and hits puree. It's a cross between a thriller and a human drama, one so confident that its style and shocks will mask its blatantly unoriginal story, that the end, all we feel it cheated out of time and money.
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Summary: Dragonfly: Annoys Rather Than Entertains
Review: DRAGONFLY is not the first science fiction film in which Kevin Costner plays the lead. In WATERWORLD and THE POSTMAN, he tried mightily to portray himself as a dashing adventure hero. He fizzled in both, but these two films had much else to recommend them. What we see in DRAGONFLY is a fuzzy movie that is all dressed up in themes from other movies, but winds up having no place to go. In DRAGONFLY, the viewer is not sure whether he is watching a standard ghost/reincarnation movie, an exciting save-the-lost-wife film, or a man who must come to grips with accepting his loss movie. What the viewer gets, instead, is some weird New Age mess that borrows shamelessly from the symbol-driven but more successful THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT.
Costner plays Joe Darrow, an emergency room doctor who is happily married to Emily (Suzanna Thompson). She takes off for Columbia to tend to the needy sick. They argue about this, but since he cannot stop her anyway, off she goes, even though she is heavily pregnant. There is an unwritten rule that whenever the female lead is pregnant, that pregnancy must somehow function into the plot. Thus, when she and a busload of natives are swept away by a flood, the viewer is sure that her pregnancy is not a moot issue. Joe has trouble accepting the reality of her death, mostly because he sees not so subtle ghostly hints that her spirit, if not her body, still inhabits this earthly plane. I have a problem with accepting any movie that purports to be scary if in trying to be so, the evidence usually resides in a corpse suddenly reanimating in a way that only the hero can see. Such an approach reminds me of alien encounter movies in which only the hero in solitude can see the spaceship. Further, I distrust movies that rely on maps to invigorate the plot. By mid-movie, Joe looks at a map, sees some by now recognizable symbols of spiritual possession, and he (and we) know what comes next. Lost in this mishmash is a superb supporting performance by Kathy Bates, who seems to relish her second banana status. Ultimately, THE DRAGONFLY is the sort of movie whose obviously high pretensions of ghostly status instead degenerate into a brief itch that is resolved only by swatting away that annoying dragonfly.
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