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Dragonfly [2001]
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It's like a fusing of Ghost, The Sixth Sense, and The Mothman Prophecies, a New Age melodrama in a sentimental key that works through a rather contrived mystic mystery to a glowing climax. This is less a ghost story than a modern twist on the old-fashioned miracle. --Sean Axmaker
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Editorial
Amazon.co.uk Review
"Belief gets us there", explains nun Linda Hunt to grieving widower Kevin Costner in Dragonfly. Costner plays an emergency room doctor whose ordered world is startled by "messages" from his dead wife. She's talking about the journey from life to death, but it describes the doctor's road from fact to faith equally well as he puzzles out the otherworldly events of his life. Costner's mourning comes off less lost and sad than simply emotionless and inert, but he finds good support from Kathy Bates as his sassy neighbour. Her appearances, along with a few startling horror-movie-type shocks, energise a film otherwise shrouded in loss, grief, and the hushed mood of supernatural spookiness.
pretty lame and cheesy
Review date: 2007-12-17 Rating: 4 out of 10
A very "obvious" film, with not particularly good acting. It's saccharine enough to make you gag, and insufficiently clever to keep you interested, in my opinion (though I may be alone in that, looking at the other reviews!)
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Reviews
Love - between life and death
Review date: 2007-10-21 Rating: 10 out of 10
This is a riveting movie staring Kevin Costner as an Emergency Room doctor who's wife, also a doctor, has died in a terrible accident overseas helping the poor. No spoiler there since her death occurs at the start of the movie. He is crushed by the death of his wife and goes through the motions of his life like a robot. Remembering that his wife asked him to check in on her pediatric cancer patients, he begins to visit them and grows to appreciate his wife's love and commitment even more than before. Then things begin to happen. The children he sees have seen her in near death experiences. He doesn't believe it. He doesn't believe in very much anymore and at first dismisses what these young children are trying to tell him.
I won't say more as it would likely ruin the movie experience for you. I'll just say that the surprise ending took my breath away. This movie is an insightful, deeply moving story that will leave you thinking for days. If I could give it more than 5 stars I would. I highly recommend that you not only see this movie, but buy it as you will want to watch it more than once.
The ending makes the whole film unbelievable
Review date: 2007-09-05 Rating: 8 out of 10
An amazing thriller that goes against any kind of logic. Everything is wrong, resolutely wrong. A pregnant woman, a doctor mind you, decides to take a bunch of kids to the jungle deep in Venezuela on an adventurous sabbatical. An accident throws the school bus down into a river. No survivors. The husband, another doctor, is then the victim of visions, hallucinations, seizures of some kind that he very quickly interprets as signs from her trying to speak to him from where she is. He believes and thus is led to going back to where she died and to the village of Indians living at the foot of the waterfall where she met her fate. I won't reveal the end. The film is not interesting because of the thrilling suspense, nor because of the rather sentimental ending. It is interesting because of the way it describes the reactions of normal people in front of something, or someone that does not satisfy their expectations of what they call sanity. Anything or anyone that looks suspiciously insane in our society is at once rejected, becomes suspicious, and is supposed to be pushed aside into some kind of social sabbatical, or even worse is hassled by the guardians of normality in our social order, i.e. priests, and cops, and doctors. The point is that the story that supports this fact is so hectic and farfetched that it gets the true fact down the chute along with the unbelievable elements in the story. Believing is essential, provided what is believed is believable. Otherwise the film becomes pure entertainment, and it is too somber to be pure entertainment.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines
Pretty B****y good!!
Review date: 2007-05-15 Rating: 8 out of 10
I saw this film a few nights ago on telly. I thought the idea seemed interesting, but didnt hold out much hope for it being a good film.... how wrong i was!
This film kept you hooked throughout. I enjoyed being taken along on kevins emotional journey of grief. Although there were a few predictable moments that you could see coming a mile off, i thought the suprise ending was great. I really didnt see it coming at all. I had many other scenarios in my head, but that one was fab. and quite origional.... had me crying buckets.
I really recomend this film to anyone who likes mild supernatural films. I would say its on a par, in nature, with sixth sense, not for the content, but for the tone of the film.
If you enjoyed sixth sense then im pretty sure you'll enjoy this film.
excellent
Review date: 2006-02-12 Rating: 10 out of 10
Watched this film last night with a group of friends and it is really worth buying. Excellent film.
Product Details/Specifications
Actor(s):
Ron Rifkin
Joe Morton
Kevin Costner
Kathy Bates
Linda Hunt
Creators:
Kevin Costner (Primary Contributor)
Joe Morton (Primary Contributor)
Director(s):
Recording label: Touchstone Home Video
Manufacturer: Touchstone Home Video
EAN: 5017188886789
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 1
Format: PAL, Widescreen,
Release date: 2005-08-01
Aspect ratio: 1.77:1
Audience rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
Region code: 2
Running time: 99 minutes
Theatrical release date: 2001
Language: English (Original Language)
Language: German (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired)
Language: German (Subtitled)
Language: English (Subtitled)
Language: Italian (Subtitled)
Language: Spanish (Subtitled)
Language: Czech (Subtitled)
Language: Hungarian (Subtitled)
Language: Croatian (Subtitled)
Language: French (Subtitled)