Review of Dragonfly (2002) by Abigail O — 04 May 2008

SPOILERS!!!!! A thriller involving a doctor whose wife, also a doctor, has gone missing in the deepest darkest jungle of Kreplackistan (I'll get the real location later, will this do? Ed) where the natives run around with pudding bowl haircuts and have great big wooden sticks through their lips and seem to be the slowest creatures on God's earth.

I mean there's Kevin Costner, the only gringo for miles around, asking after his dead wife who supposedly arrived from a crashed bus, and had a baby and then carked it, and when he shows off her photo, they gabble away in foreign tongue and look at each other as if to say "Hmmmm now which woman is he on about? We have so many gringo women through here having babies and then carking it, which one now, let me see.

" And there were some faces for radio in the cast! Linda Hunt is fugly as is the big fat neighbour Kathy Bates. How refreshing if Kevin Costner had got over the death of his pretty wife by taking Kathy Bates to bed for some athletic rumpy pumpy, but no she was all trouser suits, lesbian hair and wry expressions.

How predictable! I wanted to hear more from the big fat corpse who comes back to life to speak for a minute. He looked pretty interesting. Compared to the rest of them. And there was a parrot high on drugs or something, kept trashing the kitchen.

The things you see when you ain't got a gun!