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Dragonfly
MCA/Universal Pictures
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for thematic material and mild sensuality
Starring
Kevin Costner,
Kathryn Erbe,
Kathy Bates,
Meg Thalken,
Susanna Thompson,
Ron Rifkin,
Joe Morton,
and
Jay Thomas
A supernatural drama about a doctor who believes his dead wife is communicating with him from the other side.
| GENRE(S): |
Suspense/Thriller
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
David Seltzer
Brandon Camp (also story)
Mike Thompson (also story)
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Tom Shadyac
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: July 30, 2002
Video: July 30, 2002
Theatrical: February 22, 2002
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
90 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
67
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
In Costner's best moments, he makes us absolutely believe this character and feel his pain.

63
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
At least Dragonfly isn't contemptible or altogether dismissible. But it doesn't use Costner well, and it even more unforgivably wastes Kathy Bates.
50
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
A sappy, often absurd disappointment, another would-be inspirational romance that, like Costner's overwrought "Message in a Bottle," is impossible to swallow.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Meandering and inert. Yet as an etching of an emotion and a vehicle for Costner, the movie makes a case for itself.

50
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
Eventually, though, the movie turns into a "Touched By An Angel" knockoff that dares us not to reach for a hankie while we succumb to its comforting message.

50
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Costner is convincing as the hero, ably supported by Joe Morton as a short-tempered supervisor and Kathy Bates as a feisty neighbor. Dragonfly has little chance of "Ghost"-like popularity, though.

50
USA Today
Staff [Not Credited]
When Kevin Costner goes into sensitive-guy mode, beware.

42
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
A nitwit script, full of pedestrian dialogue and building to a laughable climax, dooms the picture.

40
New Times (L.A.)
Luke Y. Thompson
Joe Morton, Linda Hunt and Kathy Bates show up in supporting roles, only to have Costner's flagging energy drag them down, too.

40
Washington Post
Curt Fields
Comes across more like an above-average TV movie you might see on the Lifetime channel.

40
TV Guide
Ken Fox
Though the film springs an okay twist at the very end, there's a good chance you won't be awake to see it.

38
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
Hollywood movies are rarely as contemptuous of the audience as Dragonfly, with its half-witted, treacly New Age sappiness and its mechanical borrowings from other, better supernatural thrillers.

38
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
Painstakingly painful.
38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Rick Groen
Dragonfly has more plot than a figure-skating competition, and just about as much credibility.

38
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
This is a tedious and insulting motion picture. The only ones likely to be surprised by the payoff are those who understandably dozed off fifteen minutes into the proceedings.

30
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
Dragonfly wants desperately to be the spiritual heir to "The Sixth Sense," but it's not even as effective a thriller.

30
LA Weekly
Paul Malcolm
Despite the film's aspirations to soul healing, its uplift remains mechanical, like an escalator's.

30
Variety
Joe Leydon
Costner's earnest performance is a major plus for Dragonfly, keeping the picture grounded in some semblance of reality even as it becomes progressively more fantastical.

30
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
Very little here begs to be paid attention to.

30
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Costner has never been further from the lively, engaging actor he can be, or at least once was.
25
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
No atmosphere, no tension -- nothing but Costner, flailing away. It's a buggy drag.

25
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Preposterous-for-no-good-reason supernatural tale.

25
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
A stinker of epic proportions.
25
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
A syrup-thick New Age ghost story of the same sappy stripe and mawkishness as another Costner foray, "Message in a Bottle."

20
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Costner has an uncanny aptitude for gravitating toward the dopiest projects in sight, but this time he's outdone himself.

20
Film Threat
Michael Dequina
It's performances like these that make it so easy to forget that, when he wants to, Costner can indeed act and be an appealing star.

20
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
Hatched by screenwriters watching "The Sixth Sense" on methamphetamines

20
Slate
David Edelstein
Linda Hunt's spooky nun speaks of "a hundred levels of consciousness" between death and full, earthbound awareness: Where on that continuum do the executives who green-lighted Dragonfly reside?

20
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
The climax comes at you like a thrown cream pie, but given its faux-mythic nerve, it's tolerable. Too bad this latest station in Costner's ongoing self-crucifixion is such small potatoes until then.

20
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
Awash in cheap shocks and corny sentiment, Dragonfly aspires to be an inspirational thriller about one man's spiritual journey, but it takes little time for him to reach his destination. All that's left for him and the audience to do is solve a riddle unfit for the back of a cereal box.

10
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
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.

10
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Appalling, shamelessly manipulative and contrived, and totally lacking in conviction.

0
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
I could puke.


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