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Kevin
Costner is Dr. Joe Darrow, the head of emergency services
for Chicago Memorial Hospital in the supernatural drama Dragonfly.
His wife Emily Darrow (Susanna Thompson) gets killed in a
bus accident on a remote mountain road in Venezuela while
on a mission helping the poor and needy. Her body is never
recovered.
Without
being able to bury his wife, Joe can’t seem to get closure.
He starts acting strange. Emily had a birth mark on her shoulder
that looked like a dragonfly and now Joe starts seeing dragonflies
almost everywhere. Their relationship and love was so strong
that it’s very hard for him to let go.
His weird
behavior increases after he visits Emily’s former patients
in the pediatric oncology ward. Joe promised to look after
the kids when his wife left for some isolated region of Venezuela.
All the kids he visits are drawing the same mysterious symbol.
Furthermore, the kids keep telling him that his wife is trying
to contact him to tell him something important.
Joe becomes
obsessed with finding out what his dead wife is trying communicate
to him while everybody around him thinks he has gone nuts
except the children and Sister Madeline (Linda Hunt).
To further
tell the story might give too much away so just expect a lot
of twists and turns. That’s not all folks, you sure want
to stay till the very surprising and potent ending to get
a real shocker.
Dragonfly
has a good number of spooky, eerie and scary moments in between
long dry spells. Director Tom Shadyac known for his big comedies
such as The Nutty Professor tries his hand this time on something
serious and succeeds about half the time. He knows how to
get you jumpy but seems to forget about fixing the slow pacing
of the film.
Between
the wonderful paranormal you-can-scream-to-scenes and some
warm fuzzy dialogue, you can probably take a nap and still
make it to the bombshell ending.
The acting
varies from dull to wonderful. Kevin as usual plays it very
low key and rarely strays into the mercurial.
Full of
touchy feely moments, Dragonfly will definitely work as a
date flick and should warm the heart of many couples.
3.5 out of
5
GIL BENZEEVI
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