Rio Hayward All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Jenna Walter The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Tayyab Torres Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

Rosie Searle It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

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.

SnoopyStyle Joe Darrow (Kevin Costner) loses his doctor wife Emily (Susanna Thompson) while working charity in Central America. He's haunted and her body is not found. Then he receives a Dragonfly Mobile in the mail ordered by Emily. He had conflicted with her about going. While working at the hospital, Joe encounters Jeffrey who comes back from the dead. He was Emily's patient from before and claims to have had afterlife visions. Then another kid Ben claims to have visions of the lady doctor. There are drawings of a wiggly cross. Sister Madeline had worked with the kids about their after-death experiences.It's a good ghost story but it does lack tension. There isn't anything scary in this. This is strictly a mystery and not a very mysterious one at that. There are no big twists and turns. Costner does a little too much overacting but there isn't much else that he could do with the material.

edwagreen Stop with the super-natural nonsense already.Kevin Costner portrays a physician whose pregnant wife dies in the Venezuelan jungle. You would think that the film would just deal with his way of expressing grief and then moving on with his life. No, it couldn't be that simple.Instead, the misery begins as children in her cancer ward begin telling him that they have either seen her or heard her after near-death experiences. He believes this and appears that he literally is ready to crack up.Linda Hunt plays a nun who has experienced these type of experiences and Kathy Bates portrays a lawyer-friend who encourages him throughout all this nonsense.After 1 1/2 hours of super-natural nonsense, Kostner finally goes off to the jungle to find out what's going on. There he meets a tribe made up with women with needles going through their faces. The head woman looks like Celia Cruz and brings him to his baby! They lost his wife but kept her soul! Please. Enough already.

dbdumonteil Unfairly dismissed as cheesy,"dragonfly" is an endearing movie.Kevin Costner is perhaps not a great actor as some people understand it (thespians such as De Niro,Day-Lewis ,Nicholson or Penn).But in "dragonfly" he avoids pathos and gives a restrained performance,not devoid of emotion,which comes straight from the heart.He's given strong effective support by Kathy Bates ,whose character represents the common sense,rationalism,which is some kind of paradox since Costner portrays a physician,so par excellence a scientist,whereas she is a law professor .There are weaknesses,and the way the hero discovers the "ark" is rather far-fetched ,but the ending is smarter than you may think,and the little black boy in the hospital is really cute .The subject of the "tunnel" is straight out of the ark,but the treatment it's given is not that bad after all.