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Dragonfly
A grieving doctor is being contacted by his late wife through his patient's near death experiences.
Release : | 2002 |
Rating : | 6.1 |
Studio : | Universal Pictures, Spyglass Entertainment, Shady Acres Entertainment, |
Crew : | Art Department Coordinator, Art Direction, |
Cast : | Kevin Costner Joe Morton Ron Rifkin Susanna Thompson Kathy Bates |
Genre : | Fantasy Thriller Mystery |
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Just perfect...
Absolutely the worst movie.
Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.
This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
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.
*Spoiler-ish (but not really)* Despite some moments of dubious acting from both Kevin Costner (a very short haired??) Kathy Bates, and a completely over the top scene where Costner jumps over a waterfall and drowns (?) in the same bus that his wife did about a year earlier which allows him to see her ghost and get the answers he's seeking. Yes, despite all that I still liked this movie.It's a unique story and was scarier then I was expecting, delving into ghosts and things that go bump in the night. Ultimately I guess its a love story too, as Dr. Joe Darrow, is plagued by what he believes are messages from his wife after she dies while on a red cross mission in Venezuela. Joe begins to wonder if her spirit is trying to contact him and then goes about trying to communicate with her.The ending is a big surprise but it did leave me wondering exactly how "they" were going to get out of South America without any paperwork? 08.13
I don't want to speak about this lovely movie too much. The story is simple, but the actors and the acting are great. The ending is surprising in a good way and the atmosphere of the film is very well realized.I write this review because I wonder how low is the medium IQ of the regular voters on IMDb ? How can they rate a idiotic movie like Dark Knight 9, ranking the 10th movie of all times !!!, and a decent film like this only 6 ? Maybe because there are no special effects , no lame actor died shortly after filming, and the romance is no more appreciated. Few years ago you can rely on the IMDb ranking, but now you can miss many good movies and go see a lot of rubbish, if you consider the vote from present site.If you are a little bit romantic, see this film, you will like it.
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.