Dragonfly (2002)

What great movie. Great acting with an excellent script made for a classic. It wasn't a box office blockbuster, but this movie with give u chills several times, and kept me guessing through the entire flick, and really what else can you really ask for in a flick. Believe it or not i put this movie in my top ten. Any movie that i can watch several times and still enjoy it is top ten in my book.

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.

Not quite as bad as its reputation, this is a passable, Spiritual, Sentimental bit of claptrap that is begging for bigger questions to be answered without a clue. New Agey to be sure, it skirts Religiosity with throwaway sarcasm and not exactly Doctrinal explanations. It also barely makes the case for Scientific Textbook Dogma on the subject of the NDE.In fact, that is what makes this such a frustrating Film. It ducks, dodges, bends, bobs, and weaves its way through material that can be deep, disturbing, enlightening, or just plain spooky without managing to attach itself to any of these intrigues.It is the shallowness of the Script and walk-through Performances that keep this thing grounded when it should buzz and soar like a, well, Dragonfly. For the most part it just hovers, like a Dragonfly, but never zips like the Totem's ability to garner awe and attention.Its not an awful Movie and that may seem like slight praise and it is. The Ending will be an Epiphany for some and an "oh come on" for others depending on your tolerance for the Paranormal or mediocre Movies.

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.