Dragonfly (DVD)

~~ Dragonfly ~~ I have a strong interest in anything supernatural; if you like you could say I like anything spooky. I came across this movie quite by accident, until recently I used to have sky movies and one night I flicked through the channels and started watching a movie, I had missed the beginning of it, but from watching a couple of minutes it had attracted my interest, so much so that when it had finished I had to find out what it was called ...
...on again, I know but it has got me here writing this review and wanting to share why I love this film so much. ~~ The Movie ~~ Kevin Costner plays a Doctor at Chicago Memorial Hospital, he is highly respected and the Head of his Department, oh you want to know his name don't you, it is Dr. Joe Darrow, his wife is/was also a Doctor in the Oncology department, her name is Dr Emily Darrow. Emily loves children and also works with the Red Cross, going ...

arnoldhenryrufus 09.03.2006 · Read full review
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...phenomenon after another. A heavy dragonfly paperweight (a favourite of his wife) suddenly moves across the room, apparently defying gravity. His wife’s beloved parrot wakes him in the night with his “Honey, I’m home” call, usually reserved exclusively for his wife. He even thinks that he has seen his wife outside the window. Convinced that she is trying to reach him, he investigates the phenomenon further. A recurring theme ...
...and a few interesting moments, Dragonfly is a real chore to sit through and would easily win awards for the most boring film I’ve seen this year. Dragonfly desperately wants to be something it isn’t. Advertised as a supernatural thriller, there is absolutely nothing thrilling about this film whatsoever, and one thing seems to take forever to lead to another. It’s quite some time since I’ve seen a film with Kevin Costner in ...

LostWitness 06.02.2003 · Read full review
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...episode of the X files, Dragonfly lurches from one predictable twist to another led by the charmless Costner. Is it an overdose of Botox that has done this to the once lauded actor? Is it design that causes the most emotionless 'performance' since 'Waterworld'? Or is it a wooden actor attempting to stiffen his ‘craft’ further in order to imitate the glory of ‘The Sixth Sense’. Sadly it is so far from achieving this, that the ...
...Her fondness for the dragonfly gives the film it’s title, so it’s hardly surprising when her favourite insect keeps popping up, wait for it, OUT OF SEASON. Apparently she saw the dragonfly as a symbol of her, because she had a birthmark that looked a bit like one. Granted she's a totally rubbish ghost. He sees dragonflies everywhere, which is freaky enough but when the ratty parrot greets her in the night, that's when the terrible fear ...

QueenAngella 10.03.2003 · Read full review
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...pay to see it because Dragonfly can be described as 'weak' at best, bloody awful if you are being slightly more realistic. Its the kind of suspense thriller which relies heavily upon an ever growing feeling of suspense and the way it keeps you guessing right until the very end with spooky supernatural elements thrown into the mix toshake things up a little. The big problem being that no suspense is built up when 10 minutes into the movie you have ...
...having visions of her. The dragonfly was a passion of hers and dragonflies seem to be turning up everywhere, her parrot behaves as if she was home and he hears her voice emminating from dead patients...surely he is going nuts. Everyone seems to think so, but Kostner needs answers... Dragonfly could have been a much better movie were Shadyac not to treat his viewers like children(see his previous movies for more of the same) and were Kevin Kostner ...

wampyrii 09.03.2002 · Read full review
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This evening I watched a film with Kevin Costner and Suzanna Thompson, and the reason that I distinguished this from other movies of a scary nature was really that I have a great respect for Kevin Costner's integrity as an actor, and was not disappointed. The film was released in January 2004, and produced by Universal Studios. The story is one of human loss, and ways in which a human's mind plays tricks when they have lost a loved one, sometimes ...
...their own sanity. It revolves around two people who work in the medical profession, and how tragedy strikes, when the wife is killed in a bus accident in a far off country, and whose body is never found. Costner travels through the kinds of emotions that people who grieve do suffer, and those who suffer loss where no body is retrieved must be much worse than normal. His reactions to things that happen around him are logical, and what makes the film ...

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...thing for her babylike a dragonfly mobile for the cot and a paperweight before she went on her mission to the tribe. Joe tries to concentrate on his work after her death but soon strange things keep happening to him. Like his parrot only used to say honey im home when his wife came home and late at nite it suddenly shreeks out honey im home then when he trys to put all his wifes clothes in a case to get rid of he turns his back and then there all ...
...Joe is freeked out and takes advice from his friends and neighbour and books a water rafting holiday mean while joe visits the wards were his wife used to work at the hospitial and talks to the kids about her coz he promised his wife he would when she left for her mission and the kids are all drawing these little wiggly cross things and talking about going through the rainbow well joe things he is going mad he hears a child calling his name, the ...

craigander 26.09.2003 (15.01.2004) · Read full review
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