The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

The first must-see film of the year.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

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.

Continuing my plan to watch every Kevin Costner movie in order, I come to Dragonfly from 2002.Plot In A Paragraph: Dr Joe Darrow (KC) is a grieving doctor, who starts to believe his late wife is trying to contact him from beyond the grave. I think this is Kevin Costner's worst movie since his first good role in Fandango. Looking at the reviews, I can see it has some fans here, but I ain't one of them. Even the reliable Kathy Bates looks bored.It's dull, generic and cliché. Dragonfly does absolutely nothing for this Reviewer. I didn't like it in the cinema, I didn't like it when I bought the DVD, and I struggled to make it to the end watching it here.Kevin Costner who has saved worse movies than this has his work cut out here.

*Spoiler-ish (but not really)* Despite some moments of dubious acting from both Kevin Costner (a very short haired??) Kathy Bates, and a completely over the top scene where Costner jumps over a waterfall and drowns (?) in the same bus that his wife did about a year earlier which allows him to see her ghost and get the answers he's seeking. Yes, despite all that I still liked this movie.It's a unique story and was scarier then I was expecting, delving into ghosts and things that go bump in the night. Ultimately I guess its a love story too, as Dr. Joe Darrow, is plagued by what he believes are messages from his wife after she dies while on a red cross mission in Venezuela. Joe begins to wonder if her spirit is trying to contact him and then goes about trying to communicate with her.The ending is a big surprise but it did leave me wondering exactly how "they" were going to get out of South America without any paperwork? 08.13

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.