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NUMBERS
Box Office: $30,063,805
VHS Rentals: $13,090,000
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CONSENSUS
A promising premise ruined by sap and absurdities.
CAST & CREW
Kevin Costner, Joe Morton, Ron Rifkin
Directed by Tom Shadyac
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SYNOPSIS
Lush green aerial photography of the Venezuelan jungle stands in stark contrast to the dark and depressing urbanity of American city life where Joe Darrow (Kevin Costner) works as a doctor in the emergency room of Chicago Memorial Hospital. more...
MPAA RATING
PG-13, thematic material and mild sensuality
RUNTIME
1 hour, 45 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Feb 22, 2002
Video: Jul 30, 2002
RELEASE COMPANY
Universal Pictures
GENRE
Dramas, Drama, Romance, Supernatural, Drama (General)
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Dragonfly Site
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 "The entire movie is about a boring, sad man being boring and sad."
-- The Wolf, IOFILM.CO.UK
"The whole movie is simply a lazy exercise in bad filmmaking that asks you to not only suspend your disbelief but your intelligence as well."
-- Glenn Whipp, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
"It plods along methodically, somehow under the assumption that its “dead wife communicating from beyond the grave” framework is even remotely new or interesting."
-- Scott Weinberg, APOLLO GUIDE
"Now I can see why people thought I was too hard on "The Mothman Prophecies"."
-- Ian Waldron-Mantgani, UK CRITIC
 "While the themes are supernatural, and there are some genuinely chilling moments. But Dragonfly works best as a romance and Costner carries the film well."
-- Urban Cinefile Critics, URBAN CINEFILE
"... a weak and ineffective ghost story without a conclusion or pay off."
-- Tony Toscano, TALKING PICTURES
"Shadyac shoots his film like an M. Night Shyamalan movie, and he frequently maintains the same snail's pace; he just forgot to add any genuine tension."
-- Luke Y. Thompson, NEW TIMES
"Becomes a bit of a mishmash: a tearjerker that doesn't and a thriller that won't."
-- Jay Stone, OTTAWA CITIZEN
"I'm not sure which half of Dragonfly is worse: The part where nothing's happening, or the part where something's happening, but it's stupid."
-- Eric D. Snider, ERICDSNIDER.COM
"Degenerates into hogwash."
-- Chuck Schwartz, CRANKY CRITIC®
"the Venezuelans say things like "si, pretty much" and "por favor, go home" when talking to Americans. That's muy loco, but no more ridiculous than most of the rest of "Dragonfly.""
-- James Sanford, KALAMAZOO GAZETTE
"Dragonfly has no atmosphere, no tension -- nothing but Costner, flailing away. It's a buggy drag."
-- Rene Rodriguez, MIAMI HERALD
"The big ending surprise almost saves the movie. It's too bad that the rest isn't more compelling."
-- Steve Rhodes, STEVE RHODES' INTERNET REVIEWS
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"The only way this supernatural snore-fest could give anyone a case of the frights is if they were put to sleep by the movie and had a nightmare."
-- Jeff Vice, DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY
"'Dragonfly' dwells on crossing-over mumbo jumbo, manipulative sentimentality, and sappy dialogue."
-- Betty Jo Tucker, REELTALK MOVIE REVIEWS
"Tom Shadyac has learned a bit more craft since directing Adams, but he still lingers over every point until the slowest viewer grasps it."
-- Lawrence Toppman, CHARLOTTE OBSERVER
"Mawkish, manipulative and phonily uplifting...a very shallow and
insubstantial picture."
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION
"Stirs potentially enticing ingredients into an uneasy blend of Ghost and Close Encounters of the Third Kind."
-- David Sterritt, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
"Though Tom Shadyac's film kicks off spookily enough, around the halfway mark it takes an abrupt turn into glucose sentimentality and laughable contrivance."
-- Neil Smith, BBCI FILMS
"The more Kevin Costner rests on his pretty-boy laurels, the public is, regrettably, going to have tepid films like Dragonfly tossed at them."
-- Elias Savada, NITRATE ONLINE
"'Dragonfly' is a movie about a bus wreck that turns into a film wreck."
-- Robert Roten, LARAMIE MOVIE SCOPE
"Muddled, melodramatic paranormal romance is an all-time low for Kevin Costner."
-- James Rocchi, NETFLIX
"Here's my advice, Kev. Start reading your scripts before signing that dotted line."
-- Mark Ramsey, MOVIEJUICE!
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Avg. Rating: 3.6/10 |
"There are deeply religious and spiritual people in this world who would argue that entering a church, synagogue or temple doesn't mean you have to check your brain at the door. The same should go for movie theaters."
-- Stephanie Zacharek, SALON.COM
"Director Tom Shadyac and star Kevin Costner glumly mishandle the story's promising premise of a physician who needs to heal himself."
-- Philip Wuntch, DALLAS MORNING NEWS
"... better described as a ghost story gone badly awry."
-- Susan Walker, TORONTO STAR
"Shadyac, who belongs with the damned for perpetrating Patch Adams, trots out every ghost trick from The Sixth Sense to The Mothman Prophecies."
-- Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE
"It would be churlish to begrudge anyone for receiving whatever consolation that can be found in Dragonfly, yet it is impossible to find the film anything but appalling, shamelessly manipulative and contrived, and totally lacking in conviction."
-- Kevin Thomas, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"Costner's warm-milk persona is just as ill-fitting as Shadyac's perfunctory directing chops, and some of the more overtly silly dialogue would sink Laurence Olivier."
-- Paul Tatara, CNN
"There are enough throwaway references to faith and rainbows to plant smile-button faces on that segment of the populace that made A Walk to Remember a niche hit."
-- Jan Stuart, NEWSDAY
"You come away wishing, though, that the movie spent a lot less time trying to make a credible case for reports from the afterlife and a lot more time on the romantic urgency that's at the center of the story."
-- Susan Stark, DETROIT NEWS
"As the movie dragged on, I thought I heard a mysterious voice, and felt myself powerfully drawn toward the light -- the light of the exit sign. I have returned from the beyond to warn you: this movie is 90 minutes long, and life is too short."
-- A.O. Scott, NEW YORK TIMES
"...silly humbuggery..."
-- Lisa Schwarzbaum, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
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"A supernatural mystery that doesn't know whether it wants to be a suspenseful horror movie or a weepy melodrama. It ends up being neither, and fails at both endeavors."
-- Dustin Putman, THEMOVIEBOY.COM
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* In fairness to critics whose last name begins with a letter at the end of the alphabet, certain pages are sorted in reverse order, z-a.
* Certain "Dragonfly" article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
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