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How is it that a very pregnant doctor can lecture her husband about the necessity of living up to certain "values"—and one of them isn't that you don't go to remote, dangerous, malaria-infested Third World countries when you're six months pregnant?????

Why on earth did the screenwriters have Dr. Joe deliver a baby from a dying mother so early in the film? Did they think we'd only recall the incident at the end and say, "Oh, yeah! Just like no one talks to Bruce Willis!"?

Given that Emily's ghost can re-hang her entire wardrobe in about five seconds, why does she have to mess with half-dead kids? Can't she just pick up a pencil and write, "Dear Joe: Baby in Amazon. Please retrieve."?

When the ghost of Dr. Emily appears in Dr. Joe's consciousness as he's on the verge of drowning and explains what actually happened to her, should she maybe also note that he's on the verge of drowning? Could she maybe lift an ectoplasmic finger to help him out?

Linda Hunt's spooky nun speaks of "a hundred levels of consciousness" between death and full, earthbound awareness: Where on that continuum do the executives who green-lighted Dragonfly reside?

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