Dragonfly is a slow paced supernatural suspense film about a Doctor (Kevin Costner) who becomes convinced his wife is trying to contact him after she has passed away. The trailers for this film really made it seem fast paced and interesting and the reality is that it drags and becomes predictable.
Kevin Costner plays Dr. Joe Darrow, an E.R. doctor in some unnamed major city. His wife is also a physician and she dies in a foreign country in a bus accident/landslide. She is there providing humanitarian aid. She was also six months pregnant and she loved dragonflys. So after her death, weird things start happening to Joe and he finds himself wondering if he is going mad or if his dead wife is indeed trying to contact him. I would tell you more but there's not too much too the story as it is and I don't want to give the whole thing away.
The story is very contrived, and it drags slowly along bringing us to a conclusion that we have begun to expect halfway through the film. As hard as the film tried, I had a hard time feeling what the characters were going through, I felt like they were merely going through the motions. You never really feel anything like you did about the people in a film like say The Sixth Sense.
The acting was average, and one plus was Kathy Bates. In this film she plays Joe's lesbian neighbor who lost her lover a few years ago. So her uniqueness of character interjected a little life into the film. None of the other actor's performances really stand out.
Basically, Dragonfly is a very average film that offers very little of interest unless you are a Kevin Costner film or enjoy blasé' supernatural films. I am a fan of supernatural type films and this one I'd definitely recommend waiting for a rental or cable.
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