Protraph Lack of good storyline.

Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Taraparain Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

Sanjeev Waters A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

ardvark5 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.

Leofwine_draca Dragonfly aims to be a spooky, supernatural thriller in the same mould as THE SIXTH SENSE, WHITE NOISE and THE MOTHMAN PROPHECY, but the sad truth is that the film's structure can't retain the right atmosphere to last an entire running time. So what we have is a film that starts off pleasantly chilly but ends up as an ultimately routine and predictable storyline with the usual heartwarming Hollywood ending.Kevin Costner, who doesn't seem to have been around much since the the dual-disaster of WATERWORLD and THE POSTMAN, puts in a decent turn as Joe Darrow, a grieving doctor who becomes convinced that his dead wife is attempting to contact him from beyond the grave. It's a performance that gets gradually more frantic and desperate as the story progresses, with friends and colleagues disbelieving as they seem wont to do in these movies. The central character arc is fairly predictable in these kinds of films, but I thought that Costner did a good job with the material. He reminds you why he was once an A-list actor, even if ever so briefly.The scare scenes are fairly predictable and despite a few elements of fun with a talking parrot there's little here that hasn't been done before. Some good turns are elicited from the child actors in the cast and there are some familiar faces giving solid turns – Joe Morton, Ron Rifkin, Kathy Bates – so it's a real shame that this ends up as one of those films that seems to write itself into a corner, leading to a third act which goes for the safe and routine rather than the challenging. It had the potential to be so much more than just pleasantly spooky on occasion.

hdavis-29 A lot of people seem to be saying the same thing here. "This movie surprised me. It snuck up on me. It transcended all its clichés." I agree, and there were plenty of clichés to transcend. This film runs against just about everything I believe about the world around me (www.cavemanlogic.com). It's full of supernatural claptrap that I wouldn't go for in a million years. Yet, despite all that, it's a hell of a piece of entertainment. I have no idea why it works so well. It almost embarrasses me to like it this much. I can see all the silliness and all the clichés from a mile away, yet the movie still grabbed me. And, my god, that's a cute baby at the end.

pc95 There's a lot of buildup in "Dragonfly" starring Kevin Costner, Kathy Bates, and Susanna Thompson. On the whole too much buildup likely. The movie is depending on the viewer's lack of smarts not to catch some not so subtle hints. It keeps on pounding us over the head with inane "clues" and a baffled Kevin Costner who becomes kind of obsessed. Is the movie good? Not really. It has an ending which stretches too much, (spoiler) and the paranormal gags seem to be something akin to parlor tricks more or less. The whipped together ending (read epilogue) was way too hasty with trite narration thrown in for good measure, even though the buildup remained somewhat interesting for the first 3rd. Additionally the music is plainly unoriginal and awful, totally by the numbers. So not really recommended but you could do worse.