Prismark10 Dragonfly is an uneven supernatural thriller starring Kevin Costner who plays a bereaved husband Dr Joe Darrow whose pregnant wife Emily was killed in a bus accident while working for the Red Cross in Venezuela.Joe becomes convinced that somehow his wife is trying to contact him from the other side. This includes a dragonfly paperweight that suddenly rolls off a table and his wife's patients in hospital who are kids being treated for cancer claiming to have been contacted by her.Joe's friends become concerned that he is going mad and his hospital bosses want him to go on extended leave.Director Tom Shadyac resorts to horror film style jolts and suspense. However as Joe's behaviour becomes erratic we just end up thinking much early on why does he just not go to Venezuela to find closure especially as his wife's body was never recovered.Of course eventually that is what Joe does leading to a sentimental and a not very surprising ending.Costner is in his element by putting another maudlin performance but the film becomes too corny and mawkish too often.

LeonLouisRicci Not quite as bad as its reputation, this is a passable, Spiritual, Sentimental bit of claptrap that is begging for bigger questions to be answered without a clue. New Agey to be sure, it skirts Religiosity with throwaway sarcasm and not exactly Doctrinal explanations. It also barely makes the case for Scientific Textbook Dogma on the subject of the NDE.In fact, that is what makes this such a frustrating Film. It ducks, dodges, bends, bobs, and weaves its way through material that can be deep, disturbing, enlightening, or just plain spooky without managing to attach itself to any of these intrigues.It is the shallowness of the Script and walk-through Performances that keep this thing grounded when it should buzz and soar like a, well, Dragonfly. For the most part it just hovers, like a Dragonfly, but never zips like the Totem's ability to garner awe and attention.Its not an awful Movie and that may seem like slight praise and it is. The Ending will be an Epiphany for some and an "oh come on" for others depending on your tolerance for the Paranormal or mediocre Movies.

Leofwine_draca 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.

elshikh4 I know it's strange and unusual, but true.It's a supernatural thriller. This kind became a fashion since the 1990s; the X Flies' era. No doubts it's watchable. I loved the most the smartly written and totally unpredictable end. (Tom Shadyac), the director of Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Nutty Professor, and Liar Liar, did notable efforts, the last 10 minutes were the best. But there are 2 problems that weakened the final effect of (Dragonfly).Firstly, the empty circles along the way. Take for instance the situation of the patient who the lead was about to accidentally kill just to listen to his late wife. I felt it a comic moment ! By this far, the movie needed a fresh event not another round with a blank outcome. It lacks a very tight pace, and some good surprises. Sure this script didn't deal with its rare situation as exciting as it should be. While (White Noise – 2005) is about more or less the same subject and so average itself, it succeeds in making a catchy storyline unlike this one.Secondly, Mr. Kevin-I-don't-know-what's-happening-Costner ! This is, to talk politely, one of his least important performances. He looked clueless and confused. Yes, the character is like that but he did it provocatively clueless and confused ! I didn't emotionally coalesce with his character. And he wasn't a factor of attraction, he was the opposite. Something was pale and non-serious about him. Whether he hates this kind of movies, or he just doesn't fit well with it. So those 2 problems just gave the movie a considerable portion of languor. In terms of being solid and thrilling many X Files were extremely better than this. Let alone being suitable for second viewing. In fact this movie looks like a 45 minutes X File that had been enlarged to a movie with only dysfunctional and annoying Mulder as a lead. Generally, while being a hopeful movie that gives a somewhat nice viewing before sleeping, (Dragonfly) is as good as its idea, and as idiot as the way Costner looked !