Black Butterfly
Outside a mountain town grappling with a series of abductions and murders, Paul (Antonio Banderas), a reclusive writer, struggles to start what he hopes will be a career-saving screenplay. After a tense encounter at a diner with a drifter named Jack (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), Paul offers Jack a place to stay-and soon the edgy, demanding Jack muscles his way into Paul's work. As a storm cuts off power to the isolated cabin, the two men begin a jagged game of one-upmanship that will bring at least one tale to an end.
21 December 1984, Barranquilla, Atlantic, Colombia
10 August 1960, Málaga, Málaga, Andalucía, Spain
12 April 1972, Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany
1963, USA
31 October 1976, Dallas, Texas, USA
3 January 1959, London, England, UK
21 January 1972, Rome, Lazio, Italy
19 July 1951, The Bronx, New York, USA
May 24, 2017
Likely to divide audience with its twists and turns, but it's rarely dull, perhaps best appreciated as a higher minded exploitation effort than a brain-bleeder with occasionally iffy working parts.
May 23, 2017
Relatively entertaining and well-acted until one twist too many. at the very end.
May 25, 2017
Thanks to tight direction by Brian Goodman and lively performances from Antonio Banderas and Jonathan Rhys Meyers, the film's engaging even when it's ridiculous.
May 25, 2017
It doesn't make much sense up until [the third act], and once we do have an understanding of what was happening ... suddenly things stop making sense in a different way.
May 26, 2017
Three stars! Well played! But wait, there's one more scene. Look children - it's a falling star.
May 25, 2017
Black Butterfly plays as little more than the act of snickering adolescents toying with their audience, complete with an insulting final scene that confirms the film as a total waste of time.
May 22, 2017
None of it is earth-shattering, but Goodman gives it muscle and makes it work.
May 23, 2017
A weak, uninspired thriller, offering a frustrating and implausible twist instead of anything in the way of tension.
May 26, 2017
A charmless, nonsensical thriller that doubles as a hack screenwriter's wet dream, filled to the brim with faux-insights that wouldn't impress even the most inattentive college freshmen.
May 23, 2017
Black Butterfly's undercooked and incoherent turn of events attempt to stupefy us into mistaking its deeply flawed internal logic for ingenuity.
