Dragonfly (2002)

the audience applauded

Absolutely Fantastic

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Blistering performances.

Continuing my plan to watch every Kevin Costner movie in order, I come to Dragonfly from 2002.Plot In A Paragraph: Dr Joe Darrow (KC) is a grieving doctor, who starts to believe his late wife is trying to contact him from beyond the grave. I think this is Kevin Costner's worst movie since his first good role in Fandango. Looking at the reviews, I can see it has some fans here, but I ain't one of them. Even the reliable Kathy Bates looks bored.It's dull, generic and cliché. Dragonfly does absolutely nothing for this Reviewer. I didn't like it in the cinema, I didn't like it when I bought the DVD, and I struggled to make it to the end watching it here.Kevin Costner who has saved worse movies than this has his work cut out here.

For some reason IMDb declares it necessary that any review contain a minimum of ten lines of commentary. Frankly, this film doesn't deserve the attention that much effort would entail. But allowing this film to go without comment would be unfair to anyone who may potentially waste two hours of their life on this tripe, and really, that's what it is. Kevin Costner has trod this ground before, and in an infinitely better manner, in Field of Dreams. Loss and redemption are themes familiar in a lot of movies, and for good reason. No thinking person has experienced the former without deeply considering the latter. Deep consideration is something that is apparently beyond the people responsible for this, um, effort.A films should have themes, subtext, meaning beyond what the characters say. This doesn't even come close. Hell, the stated message of this movie isn't even much of a message. Simply states, this movie is, in the most succinct way I can state it, unbridled pablum.

There's a lot of buildup in "Dragonfly" starring Kevin Costner, Kathy Bates, and Susanna Thompson. On the whole too much buildup likely. The movie is depending on the viewer's lack of smarts not to catch some not so subtle hints. It keeps on pounding us over the head with inane "clues" and a baffled Kevin Costner who becomes kind of obsessed. Is the movie good? Not really. It has an ending which stretches too much, (spoiler) and the paranormal gags seem to be something akin to parlor tricks more or less. The whipped together ending (read epilogue) was way too hasty with trite narration thrown in for good measure, even though the buildup remained somewhat interesting for the first 3rd. Additionally the music is plainly unoriginal and awful, totally by the numbers. So not really recommended but you could do worse.

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.